Full Description
Over the last few years, bacterial adhesion has become a more and more important and active scientific area, but the field lacks communication and scientific exchange between medical and microbiology researchers who work with the relevant biological systems, and biochemists, structural biologists and physicists, who know and understand the physical methods best suited to investigate the phenomenon at the molecular level. The field consequently would benefit from a cross-disciplinary conference enabling such communication. This book tries to bridge the gap between the disciplines.
Contents
1. Adhesins of human pathogens from the genus Yersinia; 2. Adhesive mechanisms of Salmonella enteric; 3. Adhesion Mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi; 4. Adhesins of Bartonella spp.; 5. Adhesion Mechanisms of Plant-Pathogenic Xanthomonadeae; 6. Adhesion by Pathogenic Corynebacteria; 7. Adhesion Mechanisms of Staphylococci; 8. Protein Folding in Bacterial Adhesion: Secretion and Folding of Classical Monomeric Autotransporters; 9. Structure and Biology of Trimeric Autotransporter Adhesins; 10. Crystallography and EM of chaperone/usher pilus systems; 11. Crystallography of Gram-positive Bacterial Adhesins; 12. The nonideal coiled coil of M protein and its multifarious functions in pathogenesis; 13. Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides; 14. Carbohydrate mediated bacterial adhesion; 15. The Application of NMR Techniques to Bacterial Adhesins; 16. Electron microscopy techniques to study bacterial adhesion; 17. EM Reconstruction of Adhesins: 18. Atomic force microscopy to study intermolecular forces and bonds associated with bacteria; 19. Assessing Bacterial Adhesion on an Individual Adhesin and Single Pili Level using Optical Tweezers; 20. Short time-scale bacterial adhesion dynamics; 21. Deciphering Biofilm Structure and Reactivity by Multiscale Time-resolved Fluorescence Analysis; 22. Inhibition of Bacterial Adhesion on Medical Devices.
