Molecular principles of fungal pathogenesis

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Heitman, Joseph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Fungal molecular pathogenesis : what can it do and why do we need it? / John R. Perfect and Arturo Casadevall
  • Sex, MAT, and the evolution of fungal virulence / James A. Fraser and Joseph Heitman
  • Postgenomic strategies for genetic analysis : insight from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans / Clarissa J. Nobile and Aaron P. Mitchell
  • Candida albicans hypha formation and virulence / Paula Sundstrom
  • The conversion from classical studies in fungal pathogenesis to the molecular era / Kyung J. Kwon-Chung and Brian L. Wickes
  • Mating and parasexual genetics in Candida albicans / Mathew Miller and Alexander Johnson
  • The mating-type locus and mating of Candida albicans and Candida glabrata / David R. Soll
  • Evolution of human pathogenic fungi : phylogenies and species / John W. Taylor
  • Establishment of cell identity in pathogenic fungi / Christina M. Hull
  • Signal transduction in the interactions of fungal pathogens and mammalian hosts / Malcolm Whiteway and Catherine Bachewich
  • Function and regulation of adhesin gene families in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, and Candida glabrata / Irene Castaño, Alejandro de las Peñas, and Brendan P. Cormack
  • Fungal biofilms : agents of disease and drug resistance / Gordon Ramage, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, and José L. López-Ribot
  • Molecular basis of fungal adherence to endothelial and epithelial cells / Scott G. Filler, Donald C. Sheppard, and John E. Edwards, Jr.
  • Molecular principles of antifungal drug resistance / Dominique Sanglard and Theodore C. White
  • Heterologous hosts and the evolution and study of fungal pathogenesis / Eleftherios Mylonakis, Stephen B. Calderwood, and Frederick M. Ausubel
  • Amoeba and slime mold: hosts of virulence evolution / Arturo Casadevall
  • Aspergillus nidulans : a model for elucidation of Aspergillus fumigatus secondary metabolism / Nancy Keller
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae : an emerging and model pathogenic fungus / John H. McCusker
  • Fungal-bacterial interactions / Deborah A. Hogan and Roberto Kolter
  • Amphibian chytridiomycosis as an emerging infectious disease of wildlife : what can we learn from the earliest diverging fungi? / Timothy Y. James and Rytas Vilgalys
  • Cryptococcus neoformans : a sugar-coated killer / John R. Perfect
  • Toward a molecular understanding of Candida albicans virulence / Frank C. Odds, Neil A.R. Gow, and Alistair J.P. Brown
  • Molecular determinants of Histoplasma capsulatum pathogenesis / Jon P. Woods
  • Molecular determinants of virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus / Judith C. Rhodes and Axel A. Brakhage
  • Pathogenesis of pneumocystis / A. George Smulian and Melanie T. Cushion
  • Virulence mechanisms of coccidioides / Garry T. Cole ... [et al.]
  • Blastomyces dermatitidis cell surface determinants and their application in vaccine development / Bruce Klein
  • Virulence factors in black molds with emphasis on melanin, chitin, and Wangiella as a molecularly tractable model / Paul J. Szaniszlo
  • Zygomycetes as agents of infectious disease in humans / Ashraf S. Ibrahim and Brad Spellberg
  • Signaling pathways in the dimorphic human fungal pathogen Penicillium marneffei / Alex Andrianopoulos and Sophie Zuber
  • Innate humoral immunity to fungi / Thomas R. Kozel
  • Innate and acquired cellular immunity to fungi / Luigina Romani
  • Acquired antibody-mediated immunity to fungi / Liise-anne Pirofski and Arturo Casadevall
  • Site-specific mucosal immunity to fungi : lessons learned from Candida albicans applied to other fungi / Paul L. Fidel, Jr. and Beatriz Finkel-Jimenez
  • Intracellular pathogenesis of Histoplasma capsulatum / Simon L. Newman
  • Interactions of immune cells with the facultative intracellular pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans / Lauren E. Yauch and Stuart M. Levitz
  • Fungal interactions with leukocytes / Mairi C. Noverr ... [et al.]
  • Fungal vaccine development / Joshua D. Nosanchuk and George S. Deepe Jr.
  • Molecular immunopathogenesis of innate host defense against chronic disseminated (hepatosplenic) candidiasis / Thomas J. Walsh ... [et al.]
  • Studying fungal virulence using genomics / Michael C. Lorenz
  • Future of functional genomics of Histoplasma capsulatum / Anita Sil and Lena Hwang
  • Functional genomic approaches to fungal pathogenesis, drug target validation, and antifungal drug discovery / Ainslie B. Parsons, Howard Bussey, and Charles Boone
  • Genetic and proteomic analysis of fungal virulence / Jennifer K. Lodge and Michael C. Lorenz
  • Genomic perspectives on the fungal kingdom / Jason E. Stajich and Fred S. Dietrich.