Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pockley, A. Graham (Editor), Calderwood, Stuart K. (Editor), Santoro, M. Gabriella (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Heat Shock Proteins, 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.

Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease provides the most current review of the literature relating to the role and influence of heat shock (stress) proteins on the establishment, progression and resolution of infectious disease. Written by leaders in the field of heat s...

Table of Contents:

• Role of HSF1 in Infectious Disease
• Propagating Prions: An Essential Role for Molecular Chaperones
• Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Viral Infection
• Chaperones in the Morphogenesis of Viruses
• Role of Host Molecular Chaperones in Responses to Bacterial Infection and Endotoxin Exposure
• Mycobacterial Heat Shock Protein 60s in the Induction and Regulation of Infectious Disease
• Heat Shock Proteins in Protozoan Parasites – Leishmania spp.
• Toll-Like Receptors and Infectious Diseases: Role of Heat Shock Proteins
• Lipid Rafts, Lipopolysaccharide and Stress Proteins in Infectious Diseases
• Heat Shock Proteins Are Mediators of Bacterial-Host Interactions
• Membrane-Expressed and Extracellular Stress Proteins in Infectious Disease
• Circulating Stress Proteins in Infectious Disease
• Heat Shock Proteins, Genital Tract Infections and Reproductive Outcome
• Heat Shock Proteins and Oral Diseases: Special Focus on Periodontitis
• Temperature Matters: Cellular Targets of Hyperthermia in Cancer Biology and Immunology.