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Regulation of transcription by anti-sigma factors / Elizabeth A. Cam pbell and Seth A. Darst -- Two-component signal transduction and chemot axis / Jodi B. Lubetsky and Ann M. Stock -- Sugar recognition and bacte rial attachment / Craig L. Smith ... [et al.] -- Host receptors of bact erial origin / Calvin K. Yip ... [et al.] -- The chaperone-usher pathwa y of pilus fiber biogenesis / Frederic G. Sauer, Scott J. Hultgren, and Gabriel Waksman -- Structure and assembly of type IV pilins / Katrina T. Forest -- Sortase pathways in gram-positive bacteria / Kevin M. Conn olly and Robert T. Clubb -- Structural determinants of Haemophilus infl uenzae adherence to host epithelia: variations on type V secretion / Ne eraj K. Surana ... [et al.] -- Type III secretion machinery and effecto rs / C. Erec Stebbins -- Type IV secretion machinery / Gunnar Schroder, Savvas N. Savvides, Gabriel Waksman, and Erich Lanka -- Injectosomes i n gram-positive bacteria / Rodney K. Tweten and Michael Caparon -- Toll /interleukin-1 receptors and innate immunity / Liang Tong.