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Bacterial Pili
Structure, Synthesis and Role in Disease
Edited by: Michele A Barocchi, Head Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Srl, Via Fiorentia 1, Siena, 53100, ITALY, John Telford, Formerly Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Srl, Italy
April 2014 | Hardback | 224 Pages | 9781780642550
October 2019 | Paperback | 220 Pages | 9781786395283
April 2014 | ePDF 9781780642567 | ePub 9781789243741
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Description
Bacterial pili play important roles as environmental sensors, in host colonization and in biofilm formation, enabling bacteria to interact with the environment, with surfaces and with other bacteria and host cells. Most bacteria, both Gram positive and Gram negative, and almost all bacterial pathogens, are piliated. This book discusses the synthesis, structure, evolution, function and role in pathogenesis of these complex structures, and their basis for vaccine development and therapeutics for Streptococcus pathogens. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students of medical microbiology.Table of contents
- A: Table of Contents
- B: Foreword Sixty Years of Pilus research
- 1: The Vibrio cholerae toxin coregulated pilus: structure, assembly and function with implications for vaccine design
- 2: Conjugative pili
- 3: Pilus biogenesis by the chaperone-usher pathway
- 4: Type 1 and P Pili of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli
- 5: Type IV pili: functions and biogenesis
- 6: The Pseudomonas aeruginosa type IV pilus assembly system in three dimensions
- 7: Corynebacterium diphtheriae pili: Assembly, Structure, and Function
- 8: Three-dimensional structures of pilin subunits and their role in Gram-positive pilus assembly and stability
- 9: Sortase structure and specificity in Streptococci
- 10: Pili of Streptococcus pyogenes
- 11: The role of pili in the formation of biofilm and bacterial communities
- 12: Fimbrae/Pili from oral bacteria
- 13: Pilus based vaccine development in Streptococci: Variability, Diversity & Immunological responses
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