Table of Contents:
  • COLLOQUIUM ON Virulence and Defense in Hostâ€?Pathogen Interactions: Common Features Between Plants and Animals
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Colloquium Striking a balance: Modulation of the actin cytoskeleton by Salmonella
  • THE CENTISOME 63 TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM: SALMONELLA'S KEY TO ENTER INTO HOST CELLS
  • REVVING UP RHO GTPASES: SIGNALING FOR ENTRY AND BEYOND
  • DOWNSTREAM SIGNALING: EFFECTORS OF CDC42 AND RAC-1 FUNCTION
  • FINE-TUNING THE ACTIN CYTOSKELETON REARRANGEMENTS: THE ROLE OF THE ACTIN-BINDING PROTEIN SIPA
  • PUTTING ON THE BRAKES: A LESSON ON SELF-RESTRAINTLESSONS LEARNED FROM SALMONELLA
  • Colloquium Structure and function of pectic enzymes: Virulence factors of plant pathogens
  • DIFFERENCE IN OUTER BARRIERS OF PLANT AND MAMMALIAN CELLS
  • DEGRADATIVE ENZYMES OF PLANT CELL WALL COMPONENTS
  • THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES OF PLANT CELL WALL DEGRADATIVE ENZYMES
  • STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO THE ELUCIDATION OF THE ENZYMATIC MECHANISM OF PELC
  • STRUCTURE OF THE PELC R218K-(CA2+)4-PENTAGALPA COMPLEX
  • SIGNIFICANCE OF MULTIPLE ISOZYMES FOR PATHOGENESIS
  • MODEL OF THE PLB-MGALPA4 COMPLEXCONCLUSIONS
  • METHODS
  • Colloquium Pseudomonas syringae Hrp type III secretion system and effector proteins
  • HOPPSYA, PHIR11, AND THE MINIMUM GENETIC UNIT FOR BACTERIAL ELICITATION OF THE HYPERSENSITIVE RESPONSE
  • FUNCTIONS OF HRP SYSTEM COMPONENTS
  • THE TRIPARTITE MOSAIC STRUCTURE OF THE P. SYRINGAE HRP PAI
  • AN EEL MAKES A SMALL CONTRIBUTION TO PARASITIC FITNESS
  • THE CEL IS IMPORTANT FOR PATHOGENICITY
  • HRPK AND CEL ORF1
  • EFFECTOR PROTEIN SECRETION AND A UNIVERSAL TYPE III TARGETING SIGNAL
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • Colloquium Molecular and cell biology aspects of plagueA DEVICE TO INJECT BACTERIAL PROTEINS ACROSS EUKARYOTIC CELL MEMBRANES
  • EFFECTOR YOPS AND HOST RESPONSE
  • Colloquium A framework for interpreting the leucine-rich repeats of the Listeria internalins
  • INTERNALIN FAMILY
  • INTERNALIN LRR
  • LRR FLANKING SEQUENCES
  • LRR PATTERN: STRUCTURAL RESIDUES
  • LRR PATTERN: FUNCTIONAL RESIDUES
  • Colloquium Acyl-homoserine lactone quorum sensing in Gram-negative bacteria: A signaling mechanism involved in associationsâ€?
  • OVERVIEW OF ACYL-HSL QUORUM SENSING
  • QUORUM SENSING IN P. AERUGINOSAREGULATION OF VIRULENCE BY QUORUM SENSING IN P. AERUGINOSA
  • BIOFILMS AND QUORUM SENSING
  • FUTURE CHALLENGES
  • Colloquium Phenotypic variation and intracellular parasitism by Histoplasma capsulatum
  • MODULATION OF Î?-(1,3)-GLUCAN IN THE CELL WALL
  • CALCIUM AND INTRACELLULAR PARASITISM
  • REGULATION OF CBP
  • HISTOPLASMA AS A MODEL SYSTEM
  • Colloquium Exploitation of host cells by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
  • CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND PATHOLOGY
  • THE LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT