Moonlighting Cell Stress Proteins in Microbial Infections

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Henderson, Brian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Heat Shock Proteins, 7
• Subjects: Medicine.; Proteins.; Microbiology.; Bacteriology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Protein Science.

Microbial infection is increasingly seen as a problem as we begin to run out of antibiotics. Understanding how microbes cause disease is essential. In recent years it has begun to emerge that bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses can use their cell stress proteins to cause infection. This volume bri...