Bacterial Virulence Strategies That Utilize Rho GTPases -- Extracellular Bacterial Pathogens and Small GTPases of the Rho Family: An Unexpected Combination -- Triggered Phagocytosis by Salmonella: Bacterial MolecularMimicry of RhoGTPase Activation/Deactivation -- Regulation of Phagocytosis by Rho GTPases -- The Immunological Synapse and Rho GTPases -- Rho GTPases and the Control of the Oxidative Burst in Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes -- Clostridial Rho-Inhibiting Protein Toxins -- The Type III Cytotoxins of Yersinia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa That Modulate the Actin Cytoskeleton -- Modulation of Rho GTPases and the Actin Cytoskeleton by YopT of Yersinia -- Bacterial Toxins Activating Rho GTPases
Summary
"The authors of this volume present the synthesis on how the various host cellular Rho GTPase activities are manipulated by bacteria to fulfil their virulence."--Jacket
