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Genetics of Bacterial Polysaccharides

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List of contents

Introduction Chapter 1 Genetics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa polysaccharides Chapter 2 Molecular genetics of Yersinia lipopolysaccharide Chapter 3 Rhizobial cell surface carbohydrates: Their structures, biosynthesis, and functions Chapter 4 The genetics of capsule and lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis in Haemophilus influenzae Chapter 5 The genetics of LPS synthesis by the gonococcus Chapter 6 Genetics of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 surface polysaccharides Chapter 7 Common themes in the genetics of streptococcal capsular polysaccharides Chapter 8 Capsular polysaccharides of Staphylococcus aureus Chapter 9 Arabinogalactan in mycobacteria: Structure, biosynthesis, and genetics

About the author

Joanna B. Goldberg, Ph.D., has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center since 1996. She received her B.A. in Biology with Distinction from Boston University in 1979 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. In 1989, Dr. Goldberg joined the faculty at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, as an instructor and then assistant professor. Her research has focused on bacterial pathogenesis with an emphasis on polysaccharides as virulence factors and vaccine candidates.

Summary

Uses studies of enteric bacteria to set the stage for the analysis of the genetics of polysaccharides and other bacterial pathogens. This volume presents the genetic analysis of polysaccharides from a number of bacteria pathogenic to humans and one symbiotic with plants in hopes that similarities in the experimental approaches.

Product details

Authors Chia Y. Lee
Assisted by Joanna B. Goldberg (Editor), Goldberg Joanna B. (Editor)
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.1999
 
EAN 9780849300219
ISBN 978-0-8493-0021-9
No. of pages 250
Weight 500 g
Illustrations Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries

Microbiology (non-medical), Bacteriology (non-medical), SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology, Genetics (non-medical)

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