Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 87

• Contributors
  Chapter One: The Tools for Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans
• 1 Introduction to Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcosis
• 2 What Tools Allow C. neoformans to Become a Pathogen?
• 3 How Does C. neoformans Survive Within a Host?
• 4 Why is C. neoformans Successful as a Pathogen?
• 5 Future Directions
• Chapter Two: Community Interactions of Oral Streptococci
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Oral Streptococci
• 3 Co-occurrence and Colocalization of Streptococci with Other Oral Microorganisms
• 4 Community Integration Factors
• 5 Conclusions and Future Directions
• Chapter Three: Bioprospecting in the Genomic Age
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Use of Metagenomic Data in Bioprospecting
• 3 Gene-Based Data-Driven Bioprospecting
• 4 Role of Enzyme Engineering in Bioprospecting
• 5 Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter Four: Environmental and Animal-Associated Enterococci
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Host-Associated Enterococci
• 3 Enterococci in Extra-Enteric Habitats
• 4 Factors Influencing the Ecology of Enterococci in Extra-Enteric Habitats
• Chapter Five: An Introduction to Nitric Oxide Sensing and Response in Bacteria
• 1 Biochemistry of Nitric Oxide and Reactions with Bacterial Enzymes
• 2 Environmental and Host Sources of Nitric Oxide
• 3 Transcriptional Responses to Nitric Oxide
• 4 Bacterial Nitric Oxide Tolerance Systems
• 5 Enzymatic Targets of NO
• 6 Summary
• Index
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