Domain 8 : Environmental Ecology and Molecular Pathogenesis

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Escherichia coli and the Emergence of Molecular Biology (AGNES ULLMANN) (06-10-2011)

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Stationary-Phase Gene Regulation in Escherichia coli^? (REGINE HENGGE) (12-16-2011)

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Translesion DNA Synthesis (ALEXANDRA VAISMAN, JOHN P. MCDONALD, AND ROGER WOODGATE) (03-19-2012)

Stress-Induced Mutagenesis (ASHLEY B. WILLIAMS AND PATRICIA L. FOSTER) (03-12-2012)

Homologous Recombination-Experimental Systems, Analysis, and Significance (ANDREI KUZMINOV) (12-01-2011)

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	Domain 8 : Environmental Ecology and Molecular Pathogenesis

Executive Editor	James Kaper, University of Maryland

Section Editors	John Threlfall, Health Protection Agency, London; James P. Nataro, University of Virginia; Jorge Galán, Yale University School of Medicine; Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur; Timothy S. Wallis, Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom; Mark P. Stevens, Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom; Chantal Le Bouguénec, Institut Pasteur; Andreas Bäumler, University of California, Davis; Harry Mobley, University of Michigan Medical School; Roy Curtiss III, The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University; Gordon Dougan, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge; Alison D. O’Brien, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Ferric Fang, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Martin Kagnoff, University of California, San Diego; Eduardo Groisman, Yale University
Chapters
Adhesins, Colonization, and Biofilms

Colonization by Escherichia coli

The Life of Commensal Escherichia coli in the Mammalian Intestine
TYRELL CONWAY, KAREN A. KROGFELT, AND PAUL S. COHEN

Colonization of Abiotic Surfaces
CHRISTOPHE BELOIN, SANDRA DA RE, AND JEAN-MARC GHIGO

Escherichia coli Adhesins

Adhesins of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains That Infect Animals
DIETER M. SCHIFFERLI

Adhesins of Diffusely Adherent and Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli
CHANTAL le BOUGUÉNEC AND JAMES P. NATARO

Adhesins of Enterohemorrhagic *Escherichia coli*
MARK P. STEVENS AND TIMOTHY S. WALLIS

Adhesins of Enteropathogenic *Escherichia coli*
ALFREDO G. TORRES

Type 1 Fimbriae, Curli, and Antigen 43: Adhesion, Colonization, and Biofilm Formation
PER KLEMM AND MARK SCHEMBRI

Extraintestinal Infections

Escherichia coli

Meningitis-Associated Escherichia coli
KWANG SIK KIM

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli
HARRY L. T. MOBLEY, MICHAEL S. DONNENBERG, AND ERIN C. HAGAN

Molecular Epidemiology of Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli
JAMES R. JOHNSON AND THOMAS A. RUSSO

Salmonella

*Salmonella* Epidemiology and Pathogenesis in Food-Producing Animals
TIMOTHY S. WALLIS AND PAUL A. BARROW

Invasive Salmonellosis in Humans
GEMMA C. LANGRIDGE, JOHN WAIN, AND SATHEESH NAIR

Toxins and Toxigenicity

The Escherichia coli Hemolysin
RODNEY A. WELCH

Autotransporter Proteins
IAN R. HENDERSON AND JAMES P. NATARO

Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factors: Rho-Activating Toxins from Escherichia coli
GUDULA SCHMIDT AND KLAUS AKTORIES

Heat-Labile Enterotoxins
MICHAEL G. JOBLING AND RANDALL K. HOLMES

Shiga Toxins: Potent Poisons, Pathogenicity Determinants, and Pharmacological Agents
A. R. MELTON-CELSA, M. J. SMITH, AND A. D. O'BRIEN

Host Responses

NLRs: Nucleotide-Binding Domain and Leucine-Rich-Repeat-Containing Proteins
LETICIA A. M. CARNEIRO, JÖRG H. FRITZ, THOMAS A. KUFER, LEONARDO H. TRAVASSOS, SZILVIA BENKO, AND DANA J. PHILPOTT

*Salmonella* and Enteropathogenic *Escherichia coli* Interactions with Host Cells: Signaling Pathways
DANIKA L. GOOSNEY, SONYA L. KUJAT CHOY, AND B. BRETT FINLAY

Cytokines in Salmonellosis
PIETRO MASTROENI AND CLARE BRYANT

Nitric Oxide in Salmonella and Escherichia coli Infections
ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ-TORRES AND FERRIC C. FANG

Modulation of Iron Availability at the Host-Pathogen Interface in Phagocytic Cells
JOHN FORBES, STEVEN LAM-YUK-TSEUNG, AND PHILIPPE GROS

Adaptive Immune Responses during Salmonella Infection
LISA A. CUMMINGS, BROOKE L. DEATHERAGE, AND BRAD T. COOKSON

Mucosal Immune Responses to *Escherichia coli* and *Salmonella* Infections
ODILIA L. C. WIJBURG AND RICHARD A. STRUGNELL

Salmonella as an Inducer of Autoimmunity
MARK J. SOLOSKI AND ELEANOR S. METCALF

Vaccines against Infections Caused by Salmonella, Shigella, and Pathogenic Escherichia coli
CARLOS A. GUZMAN, STEFAN BORSUTZKY, DIDIER FAVRE, AND GUIDO DIETRICH

Cytokines and *Escherichia coli* Sepsis
CHLOÉ KAECH, PIERRE-YVES BOCHUD, AND THIERRY CALANDRA

Regulation of Virulence Attributes

Virulence Gene Regulation in *Escherichia coli*
JAY L. MELLIES AND ALEX M. S. BARRON

Virulence Gene Regulation in Shigella
CHARLES J. DORMAN