Full Description
This book provides an in-depth overview on the manifold functions of fungal extracellular vesicles (EV) which span from cell-to-cell communication, pathogenicity and stimulation of host's immunity to export of hundreds of biomolecules. The book summarizes the present knowledge on the impact of extracellular vesicles on fungal biology. Extracellular vesicles participate in fundamental biological processes in all living cells but only during the last 15 years the production and functions of EVs were identified and studied in fungal species too. Up to date more than 50 independent studies have shown that extracellular vesicles are produced by at least 20 fungal species.
The book addresses researchers and advanced students in Microbiology, Mycology and Biotechnology.
Contents
Preface.- Foreword.- Chapter 1. Biogenesis of Fungal Extracellular Vesicle: what do we know?.- Chapter 2. Lessons learned from studying Histoplasma capsulatum extracellular vesicles .- Chapter 3. Current Status on Extracellular Vesicles from the Dimorphic Pathogenic Species of Paracoccidioide.- Chapter 4. Extracellular vesicles from Sporothrix yeast cells.- Chapter 5. Filamentous Fungi Extracellular Vesicles .- Chapter 6.Extracellular vesicles and the propagation of yeast prions .- Chapter 7. Contributions of Extracellular Vesicles to Fungal Biofilm Pathogenesis .- Chapter 8.Fungal extracellular vesicles in interkingdom communication .- Chapter 9. Interactions of extracellular vesicles from pathogenic fungi with innate leukocytes .- Chapter 10. Fungal extracellular vesicles as a potential strategy for vaccine development .- Chapter 11. Current microscopy strategies to image fungal vesicles: from the intracellular trafficking and secretion to the inner structure of isolated vesicles .- Chapter 12. Proteomic characterization of EVs in non-pathogenic yeast cells.
