Colloquium on Virulence and Defense in Host-Pathogen Interactions : Common Features Between Plants and Animals [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by Noel T. Keen ... et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456162503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy of Sciences, 2001
• ISBN: 1-280-18546-5; 9786610185467; 0-309-57001-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (124 p.)
• Collana: National Academy of Sciences colloquium series
• Altri autori (Persone): KeenNoel T. <1940->
• Disciplina: 571.9/6
• Soggetti: Virulence (Microbiology); Host-parasite relationships; Immune response - Molecular aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of America, volume 97, pp. 8752-8862, August 1, 2000, and includes articles from the National Academy of Sciences' Colloquim on Virulence and Defense in Host-Pathogen Interactions: Common Features Between Plants and Animals, held at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, December 9-11, 1999"--P. [2] of cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""COLLOQUIUM ON Virulence and Defense in Hostâ€?Pathogen Interactions: Common Features Between Plants and Animals""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Colloquium Striking a balance: Modulation of the actin cytoskeleton by Salmonella""; ""THE CENTISOME 63 TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM: SALMONELLA'S KEY TO ENTER INTO HOST CELLS""; ""REVVING UP RHO GTPASES: SIGNALING FOR ENTRY AND BEYOND""; ""DOWNSTREAM SIGNALING: EFFECTORS OF CDC42 AND RAC-1 FUNCTION""; ""FINE-TUNING THE ACTIN CYTOSKELETON REARRANGEMENTS: THE ROLE OF THE ACTIN-BINDING PROTEIN SIPA""; ""PUTTING ON THE BRAKES: A LESSON ON SELF-RESTRAINT""""LESSONS LEARNED FROM SALMONELLA""; ""Colloquium Structure and function of pectic enzymes: Virulence factors of plant pathogens""; ""DIFFERENCE ; IN OUTER BARRIERS OF PLANT AND MAMMALIAN CELLS""; ""DEGRADATIVE ENZYMES OF PLANT CELL WALL COMPONENTS""; ""THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES OF PLANT CELL WALL DEGRADATIVE ENZYMES""; ""STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO THE ELUCIDATION OF THE ENZYMATIC MECHANISM OF PELC""; ""STRUCTURE OF THE PELC R218K-(CA2+)4-PENTAGALPA COMPLEX""; ""SIGNIFICANCE OF MULTIPLE ISOZYMES FOR PATHOGENESIS""; ""MODEL OF THE PLB-MGALPA4 COMPLEX""""CONCLUSIONS""; ""METHODS""; ""Colloquium Pseudomonas syringae Hrp type III secretion system and effector proteins""; ""HOPPSYA, PHIR11, AND THE MINIMUM GENETIC UNIT FOR BACTERIAL ELICITATION OF THE HYPERSENSITIVE RESPONSE""; ""FUNCTIONS OF HRP SYSTEM COMPONENTS""; ""THE TRIPARTITE MOSAIC STRUCTURE OF THE P. SYRINGAE HRP PAI""; ""AN EEL MAKES A SMALL CONTRIBUTION TO PARASITIC FITNESS""; ""THE CEL IS IMPORTANT FOR PATHOGENICITY""; ""HRPK AND CEL ORF1""; ""EFFECTOR PROTEIN SECRETION AND A UNIVERSAL TYPE III TARGETING SIGNAL""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""Colloquium Molecular and cell biology aspects of plague""""A DEVICE TO INJECT BACTERIAL PROTEINS ACROSS EUKARYOTIC CELL MEMBRANES""; ""EFFECTOR YOPS AND HOST RESPONSE""; ""Colloquium A framework for interpreting the leucine-rich repeats of the Listeria internalins ""; ""INTERNALIN FAMILY""; ""INTERNALIN LRR""; ""LRR FLANKING SEQUENCES""; ""LRR PATTERN: STRUCTURAL RESIDUES""; ""LRR PATTERN: FUNCTIONAL RESIDUES""; ""Colloquium Acyl-homoserine lactone quorum sensing in Gram-negative bacteria: A signaling mechanism involved in associationsâ€? ""; ""OVERVIEW OF ACYL-HSL QUORUM SENSING""; ""QUORUM SENSING IN P. AERUGINOSA""""REGULATION OF VIRULENCE BY QUORUM SENSING IN P. AERUGINOSA""; ""BIOFILMS AND QUORUM SENSING""; ""FUTURE CHALLENGES""; ""Colloquium Phenotypic variation and intracellular parasitism by Histoplasma capsulatum""; ""MODULATION OF Î?-(1,3)-GLUCAN IN THE CELL WALL""; ""CALCIUM AND INTRACELLULAR PARASITISM""; ""REGULATION OF CBP""; ""HISTOPLASMA AS A MODEL SYSTEM""; ""Colloquium Exploitation of host cells by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli""; ""CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND PATHOLOGY""; ""THE LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT""; ""LOCALIZED EPEC ADHERENCE TO EPITHELIAL CELLS""