Contents

Contributors

Preface

PART 1: OXIDATIVE AND NITROSATIVE STRESS

1 Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress Defence Systems in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A Model Organism of Study Versus a Human Opportunistic Pathogen

2 Coordinated Regulation of Stress and Virulence Adaptations in Stages of Haemophilus Pathogenesis

3 Nitric Oxide Stress in Escherichia coli and Salmonella

4 Nitric Oxide and Gram-positive Pathogens: Host Triggers and Bacterial Defence Mechanisms

PART 2: NOVEL GENE REGULATION IN RESPONSE TO HOST DEFENCES

5 Novel Regulation in Response to Host-generated Stresses: The MerR Family of Regulators in Pathogenic Bacteria

6 Stress Responses in the Pathogenic Neisseria: Overlapping Regulons and sRNA Regulation

PART 3: ACID STRESS, PH CONTROL AND SURVIVAL IN THE HUMAN HOST

7 Acid Survival Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens of the Digestive Tract

8 Urease and the Bacterial Acid Stress Response

PART 4: NUTRIENT STRESS

9 Secretion Systems and Metabolism in the Pathogenic Yersiniae

10 Response of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to Oxygen Limitation and Excess

PART 5: METAL LONS AND PATHOGENIC BACTERLA

11 Copper and Zinc Stress in Bacteria

12 Metal Ion Sensing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

13 Salmonella and the Host in the Battle for Iron

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