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.

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InhaltsangabeIntroduction; D. Linke and A. Goldman1.    Adhesins of human pathogens from the genus Yersinia; J.C. Leo and M. Skurnik2.    Adhesive mechanisms of Salmonella enteric; C. Wagner and M. Hensel3.    Adhesion Mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi; S. Antonara, L. Ristow and J. Coburn4.    Adhesins of Bartonella spp.; F. O´Rourke, T. Schmidgen, P.O. Kaiser, D. Linke and V.A.J. Kempf5.    Adhesion Mechanisms of Plant-Pathogenic Xanthomonadeae; N. Mhedbi-Hajri, M.-A. Jacques and R. Koebnik6.    Adhesion by Pathogenic Corynebacteria; E.A. Rogers, A. Das and H. Ton-That7.    Adhesion Mechanisms of Staphylococci; C. Heilmann8.    Protein Folding in Bacterial Adhesion: Secretion and Folding of Classical Monomeric Autotransporters; P. van Ulsen9.    Structure and Biology of Trimeric Autotransporter Adhesins; A. Lyskowski, J.C. Leo and A. Goldman 10.  Crystallography and EM of chaperone/usher pilus systems; S. Geibel and G. Waksman 11.  Crystallography of Gram-positive Bacterial Adhesins; V. Krishnan and S.V.L. Narayana 12.  The nonideal coiled coil of M protein and its multifarious functions in pathogenesis; P. Ghosh 13.  Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides; K. Bazaka, R.J. Crawford, E.L. Nazarenko and E.P. Ivanova 14.  Carbohydrate mediated bacterial adhesion; R. J. Pieters 15.  The Application of NMR Techniques to Bacterial Adhesins; F. Shewmaker 16.  Electron microscopy techniques to study bacterial adhesion; I. Grin, H. Schwarz and D. Linke17.  EM Reconstruction of Adhesins: Future Prospects; F. Ilaria and F. Giusti 18.  Atomic force microscopy to study intermolecular forces and bonds associated with bacteria; S.K. Lower 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 20.  Short time-scale bacterial adhesion dynamics; J. Geng and N. Henry 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-Aupart and R. Briandet 22.  Inhibition of Bacterial Adhesion on Medical Devices; L.R. Rodrigues Index