This book is a compilation of the most relevant molecular mechanisms and cellular processes that are involved in the infection processes in relation to lipid metabolism. The authors are international experts in the field of infection biology. Readers will understand infection metabolism and the contribution of lipids and lipid-protein interaction to lipids.Microbial lipids play an important role in almost all cellular phenomena. Microbial infections also contain an important virulence component in microbial lipids. The secretion of lipid vesicles that contain virulence factors, the assembly of lipid membrane microdomains harboring signal transduction pathways relate to infection process and the number of lipid-protein interactions that are necessary for the internalization of pathogens to host cells are some examples of the importance of lipids and lipid metabolism in the development of infections.

Bacterial Adherence to Plant and Animal Surfaces Via Adhesin-Lipid Interactions

Lipid Rafts in Bacteria: Structure and Function
Lipids and Legionella Virulence
Lipids of Clinically Significant Mycobacteria
Mycobacterial Lipid Bodies and the Chemosensitivity and Transmission of Tuberculosis
Role of Sphingolipids in Bacterial Infections
Participation of Bacterial Lipases, Sphingomyelinases, and Phospholipases in Gram-negative Bacterial Pathogenesis
Participation of Bacterial Lipases, Sphingomyelinases, and Phospholipases in Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogenesis
Methanotrophy, Methylotrophy, the Human Body, and Disease
Skin: Cutibacterium (formerly Propionibacterium) acnes and Acne Vulgaris
Hydrocarbon Degraders as Pathogens
Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils
Infection Prevention: Oil- and Lipid-Containing Products in Vaccinology
Tuning Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides by Lipidation
Gastrointestinal Tract: Fat Metabolism in the Colon
Gastrointestinal Tract: Intestinal Fatty Acid Metabolism and Implications for Health
Gastrointestinal Tract: Microbial Metabolism of Steroids
Microbial Oils as Nutraceuticals and Animal Feeds
Microbiome Metabolic Potency Towards Plant Bioactives and Consequences for Health Effects
Poly-Beta-Hydroxybutyrate (PHB) and Infection Reduction in Farmed Aquatic Animals.