Plasmid Biology

Barbara E Funnell, Gregory J Phillips (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

638 Seiten

2004
American Society for Microbiology (Verlag)
978-1-55581-265-2 (ISBN)

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'Plasmid Biology' provides a review of historical events and discoveries that have shaped research in plasmid biology, exploring the rich diversity of plasmid form, function and utility.

Captures the wealth of information on plasmid structure, function, and biology in a single volume. * Delivers the latest impacts of plasmid study upon the areas of bacterial pathogenesis, evolution, genome analysis, chromosome dynamics, and eukaryotic cell biology. * Includes a historical perspective of the study of plasmids, reviewing important events and discoveries that have propelled the field forward. * Details basic biological processes such as replication and inheritance functions, specific plasmid systems, plasmid evolution, and use of plasmids as genetic tools. * Covers use of genomic approaches for the study of plasmid biology, and presents a review of plasmids from bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. * Provides comprehensive information on the diversity of plasmid systems in the natural environment, and the development of plasmid use in laboratoratories.

This title is published by the American Society for Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Plasmids: Selective View of Their History, Donald R. Helinski

I. Plasmid Replication Systems
2. Participating Elements in the Replication of Iteron-Containing Plasmids, Ricardo Kruger, Sheryl A. Rakowski, and Marcin Filutowicz
3. Plasmid Replication Control by Antisense RNAs, Sabine Brantl
4. Rolling-Circle Replication, Saleem A. Khan

II. Plasmid Maintenance and Inheritance
5. Partition Systems of Bacterial Plasmids, Barbara E. Funnell and Roderick A. Slavcev
6. Genetic Addiction: a Principle of Gene Symbiosis in a Genome, Ichizo Kobayashi
7. DNA Site-Specific Resolution Systems, Bernard Hallet, Virginie Vanhooff, and Francois Cornet
8. Topological Behavior of Plasmid DNA, N. Patrick Higgins and Alexander V. Vologodskii
9. Bacterial Conjugation in Gram-Negative Bacteria, Trevor Lawley, Brian M. Wilkins, and Laura S. Frost
10. Conjugation in Gram-Positive Bacteria, Don B. Clewell and M. Victoria Francia

III. Specific Plasmid Systems
11. Plasmid Strategies for Broad-Host-Range Replication in Gram-Negative Bacteria, Aresa Toukdarian
12. The Symbiotic Plasmids of the Rhizobiaceae, David Romero and Susana Brown
13. Linear Plasmids in Bacteria: Common Origins, Uncommon Ends, Philip Stewart, Patricia A. Rosa, and Kit Tilly
14. The 2um Plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Makkuni Jayaram, XianMei Yang, Shwetal Mehta, Yuri Voziyanov, and Soundarapandian Velmurugan
15. Viral Plasmids in Mammalian Cells, Lori Frappier
16. Degradative Plasmids, Naota Ogawa, Ananda M. Chakrabarty, and Olga Zaborina
17. Archaeal Plasmids, Roger A. Garrett, Peter Redder, Bo Greve, Kim Brugger, Lanming Chen, and Qunxin She

IV. Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids
18. Genome-Scale Analysis of Virulence Plasmids: the Contribution of Plasmid-Borne Virulence Genes in Enterobacterial Pathogenesis, Malabi M. Venkatesan and Valerie Burland
19. Virulence Plasmids of Spore-Forming Bacteria, Julian I. Rood
20. Virulence Plasmids of Yersinia: Characteristics and Comparison, Luther E. Lindler
21. Virulence Plasmids of Nonsporulating Gram-Positive Pathogens, Chris M. Pillar and Michael S. Gilmore
22. The Agrobacterium Ti Plasmids, Peter J. Christie
23. Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids, Diane E. Taylor, Amera Gibreel, Trevor D. Lawley, and Dobryan M. Tracz
24. Plasmids pJM1 and PColV-K30 Harbor Iron Uptake Genes That Are Essential for Bacterial Virulence, Jorge H. Crosa

V. Plasmid Ecology and Evolution
25. Evolution and Population Genetics of Bacterial Plasmids, Christopher M. Thomas
26. Second Chromosomes and Megaplasmids in Bacteria, Shawn R. MacLellan, Christopher D. Sibley, and Turlough M. Finan

VI. Plasmids as Genetic Tools
27. Plasmid Vectors for Gene Cloning and Expression, Quinn Lu
28. Plasmids as Genetic Tools for Stuyd of Bacterial Gene Function, Gregory J. Phillips
29. Plasmids as Tools for Containment, Begona Torres, Jose L. Garcia, and Eduardo Diaz

Verlagsort	Washington DC
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1714 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
ISBN-10	1-55581-265-1 / 1555812651
ISBN-13	978-1-55581-265-2 / 9781555812652
Zustand	Neuware