Type IV Secretion in Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria

1. Biological Diversity and Evolution of Type IV Secretion Systems
Peter J. Christie, Laura Gomez Valero, Carmen Buchrieser

2. Structural and Molecular Biology of Type IV Secretion Systems
Célia Bergé, Gabriel Waksman, Laurent Terradot

3. Prokaryotic Information Games: How and When to Take up and Secrete DNA
Kerstin Stingl, Günther Koraimann

4. Relaxases and Plasmid Transfer in Gram-Negative Bacteria
Ellen L. Zechner, Gabriel Moncalián, Fernando Cruz

5. Mechanisms of Conjugative Transfer and Type IV Secretion-Mediated Effector Transport in Gram-Positive Bacteria
Elisabeth Grohmann, Walter Keller, Günther Muth

6. Coupling Proteins in Type IV Secretion
Matxalen Llosa, Itziar Alkorta

7. Type IV Secretion in Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Development of Specific Inhibitors
Mahzad Sharifahmadian, Christian Baron

8. The Helicobacter pylori Type IV Secretion System Encoded by the cag Pathogenicity Island: Architecture, Function, and Signaling
Steffen Backert, Rainer Haas, Markus Gerhard, Michael Naumann

9. Subversion of Host Membrane Dynamics by the Legionella Dot/Icm Type IV Secretion System
Hubert Hilbi, Hiroki Nagai, Tomoko Kubori, Craig R. Roy

10. Beginning to Understand the Role of the Type IV Secretion System Effector Proteins in Coxiella burnetii Pathogenesis
Anja Lührmann, Hayley J. Newton, Matteo Bonazzi

11. Type IV Effector Secretion and Subversion of Host Functions by Bartonella and Brucella Species
Christoph Dehio, Renée M. Tsolis

12. Role and Function of the Type IV Secretion System in Anaplasma and Ehrlichia Species
Yasuko Rikihisa

13. Secretion of Chromosomal DNA by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae Type IV Secretion System
Melanie M. Callaghan, Jan-Hendrik Heilers, Chris Does, Joseph P. Dillard

14. Erratum to: Type IV Secretion in Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria
Steffen Backert, Elisabeth Grohmann

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