Bacterial Adhesion

<p>Introduction; D. Linke and A. Goldman</p><p>1.    Adhesins of human pathogens from the genus Yersinia; J.C. Leo and M. Skurnik</p><p>2.    Adhesive mechanisms of Salmonella enteric; C. Wagner and M. Hensel</p><p>3.    Adhesion Mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi; S. Antonara, L. Ristow and J. Coburn</p><p>4.    Adhesins of Bartonella spp.; F. O´Rourke, T. Schmidgen, P.O. Kaiser, D. Linke and V.A.J. Kempf</p><p>5.    Adhesion Mechanisms of Plant-Pathogenic Xanthomonadeae; N. Mhedbi-Hajri, M.-A. Jacques and R. Koebnik</p><p>6.    Adhesion by Pathogenic Corynebacteria; E.A. Rogers, A. Das and H. Ton-That</p><p>7.    Adhesion Mechanisms of Staphylococci; C. Heilmann</p><p>8.    Protein Folding in Bacterial Adhesion: Secretion and Folding of Classical Monomeric Autotransporters; P. van Ulsen</p><p>9.    Structure and Biology of Trimeric Autotransporter Adhesins; A. Łyskowski, J.C. Leo and A. Goldman </p><p>10.  Crystallography and EM of chaperone/usher pilus systems; S. Geibel and G. Waksman </p><p>11.  Crystallography of Gram-positive Bacterial Adhesins; V. Krishnan and S.V.L. Narayana </p><p>12.  The nonideal coiled coil of M protein and its multifarious functions in pathogenesis; P. Ghosh </p><p>13.  Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides; K. Bazaka, R.J. Crawford, E.L. Nazarenko and E.P. Ivanova </p><p>14.  Carbohydrate mediated bacterial adhesion; R. J. Pieters </p><p>15.  The Application of NMR Techniques to Bacterial Adhesins; F. Shewmaker </p><p>16.  Electron microscopy techniques to study bacterial adhesion; I. Grin, H. Schwarz and D. Linke</p><p>17.  EM Reconstruction of Adhesins: Future Prospects; F. Ilaria and F. Giusti </p><p>18.  Atomic force microscopy to study intermolecular forces and bonds associated with bacteria; S.K. Lower </p><p>19.  Assessing Bacterial Adhesion on an Individual Adhesin and Single Pili Level using Optical Tweezers; O. Axner, M. Andersson, O. Björnham, M. Castelain, J. Klinth, E. Koutris and S. Schedin </p><p>20.  Short time-scale bacterial adhesion dynamics; J. Geng and N. Henry </p><p>21.  Deciphering Biofilm Structure and Reactivity by Multiscale Time-resolved Fluorescence Analysis; A. Bridier, E. Tischenko, F. Dubois-Brissonnet, J.-M. Herry, V. Thomas, S. Daddi-Oubekka, F. Waharte, K. Steenkeste, M.-P. Fontaine-Aupartand R. Briandet </p><p>22.  Inhibition of Bacterial Adhesion on Medical Devices; L.R. Rodrigues </p><p>Index</p>