1st Edition
Yersinia Molecular and Cellular Biology
Written by the top Yersinia specialists, the book reviews the molecular biology of these important organisms and comprehensively covers recent advances in the field. Topics include genetic diversity in Y. pestis, quorum sensing, identification of virulence genes, regulation of virulence elements, superantigens, host invasion, host immune response, LPS structure and genetics, flagellar-dependent motility, flagellar-dependent protein secretion, iron or heme transport systems, Yersinia pathogenicity Islands, the Yop effector proteins, plasminogen activator (Pla), F1 antigen, and the conjugative plasmid pVM82.
Biography
Elisabeth Carniel
It is accurate, thorough and for a book of this type, up-to-date. A credit to all contributors. This book is a must for Yersiniologists, but may also have wider appeal for researchers interested in biodefence, microbial genomics and the evolution of microbial virulence. - Brendan Wren, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
It is a contributive and solid foundation on which to base continuous bibliographic updating in a bacterial field evolving at least as fast as the Yersinia speicies themselves - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2004:41, 15 December