Bacterial Adhesion

Focusing on how best to study bacterial adhesion, this volume helps bridge the communication divide between biologists, chemists and physics researchers and aims at stimulating fresh and groundbreaking research into this essential function of bacteria.

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.