Bacterial Stress Responses

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Summarizes current knowledge of the subject, synthesizes information about different organisms and systems, and outlines outstanding questions. For researchers. Extensive references.

Contributors

ix

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

I. Specific Stress Responses

The Heat Shock Response: Regulation and Function

3

(16)

Takashi Yura

Masaaki Kanemori

Miyo T. Morita

Sensing and Responding to Envelope Stress

19

(14)

Tracy L. Raivio

Thomas J. Silhavy

The Cold Shock Response

33

(14)

Sangita Phadtare

Kunitoshi Yamanaka

Masayori Inouye

Oxidative Stress

47

(14)

Gisela Storz

Ming Zheng

Mechanisms for Sensing and Responding to Oxygen Deprivation

61

(18)

Thomas Patschkowski

Donna M. Bates

Patricia J. Kiley

Coping with Osmotic Challenges: Osmoregulation through Accumulation and Release of Compatible Solutes in Bacteria

79

(20)

Erhard Bremer

Reinhard Kramer

Microbial Responses to Acid Stress

99

(18)

John W. Foster

Sodium Stress

117

(14)

Etana Padan

Terry Ann Krulwich

The SOS Response to DNA Damage

131

(14)

Graham C. Walker

Bradley T. Smith

Mark D. Sutton

Metalloregulatory Systems at the Interface between Bacterial Metal Homeostasis and Resistance

145

(16)

F. Wayne Outten

Caryn E. Outten

Thomas V. O'Halloran

II. General Stress Responses

The General Stress Response in Escherichia coli

161

(18)

Regine Hengge-Aronis

Protective Function and Regulation of the General Stress Response in Bacillus subtilis and Related Gram-Positive Bacteria

179

(20)

Chester W. Price

Bacterial Sporulation: a Response to Environmental Signals

199

(18)

Abraham L. Sonenshein

Resistance of Bacterial Spores

217

(14)

Peter Setlow

Long-Term Survival and Evolution in the Stationary Phase

231

(8)

Steven E. Finkel

Erik R. Zinser

Roberto Kolter

Mutation under Stress: Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia coli

239

(10)

William A. Rosche

Patricia L. Foster

Regulation of Competence in Bacillus subtilis and Its Relation to Stress Response

249

(12)

David Dubnau

Kursad Turgay

The Roles of Cell-Cell Communication in Confronting the Limitations and Opportunities of High Population Densities

261

(14)

Stephen C. Winans

Jun Zhu

III. Pathogenic Responses

The Art of Keeping Low and High Iron Concentrations in Balance

275

(14)

Klaus Hantke

Volkmar Braun

Identification and Analysis of Proteins Expressed by Bacterial Pathogens in Response to Host Tissues

289

(16)

Ralph R. Isberg

Environmental Control of Pilus Gene Expression

305

(18)

Margareta Krabbe

Nathan Weyand

David Low

Bacterial Drug Resistance: Response to Survival Threats

323

(46)

Michael N. Alekshun

Stuart B. Levy

IV. Bacteria Thriving in Stressful Environments

Thermal Stress in Hyperthermophiles

369

(14)

Purificacion Lopez Garcia

Patrick Forterre

The Stress Responses of Deinococcus radiodurans

383

(10)

John R. Battista

Ashlee M. Earl

Owen White

Mechanisms of Organic Solvent Tolerance in Bacteria

393

(10)

Jasper Kieboom

Jan A.M. de Bont

Bacteria Adapted to Industrial Biotopes: Metal-Resistant Ralstonia

403

(14)

Max Mergeay

V. Applications of Stress Response Analysis

A Comparative-Genomic View of the Microbial Stress Response

417

(28)

Eugene V. Koonin

L. Aravind

Michael Y. Galperin

Proteomic Analysis of Bacterial Stress Responses

445

(8)

Frederick C. Neidhardt

Ruth A. VanBogelen

Applications of Stress Responses for Environmental Monitoring and Molecular Toxicology

453

(16)

Robert A. LaRossa

Tina K. Van Dyk

Index

469

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