The Actin Cytoskeleton and Bacterial Infection

1. Actin: Structure, Function, Dynamics, and Interactions with Bacterial Toxins
Sonja Kühn, Hans Georg Mannherz

2. Formation of Nanotube-Like Protrusions, Regulation of Septin Organization and Re-guidance of Vesicle Traffic by Depolymerization of the Actin Cytoskeleton Induced by Binary Bacterial Protein Toxins
Carsten Schwan, Klaus Aktories

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Photorhabdus luminescens Toxins TccC3 and TccC5 Affect the Interaction of Actin with Actin-Binding Proteins Essential for Treadmilling
Alexander E. Lang, Sonja Kühn, Hans Georg Mannherz

4. Comparative Studies of Actin- and Rho-Specific ADP-Ribosylating Toxins: Insight from Structural Biology
Hideaki Tsuge, Toshiharu Tsurumura, Akiyuki Toda, Haruka Murata, Waraphan Toniti, Toru Yoshida

5. Pathogenic Mechanisms of Actin Cross-Linking Toxins: Peeling Away the Layers
Elena Kudryashova, David B. Heisler, Dmitri S. Kudryashov

6. ActA of Listeria monocytogenes and Its Manifold Activities as an Important Listerial Virulence Factor
Helena Pillich, Madhu Puri, Trinad Chakraborty

7. Actin-Dependent Regulation of Borrelia burgdorferi Phagocytosis by Macrophages
Xenia Naj, Stefan Linder

8. New Aspects on Bacterial Effectors Targeting Rho GTPases
Emmanuel Lemichez

9. Type III Secreted Virulence Factors Manipulating Signaling to Actin Dynamics
Theresia E. B. Stradal, Sonia C. P. Costa

10. Acting on Actin: Rac and Rho Played by Yersinia

Martin Aepfelbacher, Manuel Wolters

11. Bacterial Actins and Their Interactors
Pananghat Gayathri

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Medical Microbiology, Pharmacology/Toxicology