(NAS Colloquium) Virulence and Defense in Host--Pathogen Interactions:

Common Features Between Plants and Animals

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Size: 124 pages, 8 1/2 x 11

Publication Year:2001

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Front Matter	i-v
Pathogens and Host: The Dance is the Same, the Couples are Different	1-2	(skim)
Striking a Balance: Modulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton by Salmonella	3-10	(skim)
Structure and Function of Pectic Enzymes: Virulence Factors of Plant Pathogens	11-18	(skim)
Pseudomonas syringae Hrp Type III Secretion System and Effector Proteins	19-26	(skim)
Molecular and Cell Biology Aspects of Plague	27-32	(skim)
A Framework for Interpreting the Leucine-rich Repeats of the Listeria Internalins	33-37	(skim)
Acyl-homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing in Gram-negative Bacteria: A Signaling Mechanism Involved in Associations with Higher Organisms	38-42	(skim)
Phenotypic Variation and Intracellular Parasitism by Histoplasma capsulatum	43-47	(skim)
Exploitation of Host Cells by Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli	48-55	(skim)
Genetic Complexity of Pathogen Perception by Plants: The Example of Rcr3, a Tomato Gene Required Specifically by Cf-2	56-63	(skim)
Plants and Animals Share Functionally Common Bacterial Virulence Factors	64-70	(skim)
Role of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator in Innate Immunity to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections	71-77	(skim)
Bad Bugs and Beleaguered Bladders: Interplay Between Uropathogenic Escherichia coli and Innate Host Defenses	78-84	(skim)
AvrPto-dependent Pto-interacting Proteins and AvrPto-interacting Proteins in Tomato	85-89	(skim)
Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Intermediates in the Relationship Between Mammalian Hosts and Microbial Pathogens	90-97	(skim)
Nitric Oxide and Salicylic Acid Signaling in Plant Defense	98-104	(skim)
The Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in Animal Defenses	105-110	(skim)
Suramin Inhibits Initiation of Defense Signaling by Systemin, Chitosan, and a ß-glucan Elicitor in Suspension-cultured Lycopersicon Peruvianum Cells	111-116	(skim)

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