Modern Microbial Genetics, Second Edition

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 655
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In accordance with its predecessor, the completely revised and expanded Second Edition of Modern Microbial Genetics focuses on how bacteria and bacteriophage arrange and rearrange their genetic material through mutation, evolution, and genetic exchange to take optimal advantage of their environment.

The text is divided into three sections: DNA Metabolism, Genetic Response, and Genetic Exchange. The first addresses how DNA replicates, repairs itself, and recombines, as well as how it may be manipulated. The second section is devoted to how microorganisms interact with their environment, including chapters on sporulation and stress shock, and the final section contains the latest information on classic exchange mechanisms such as transformation and conjugation.

Chapters include:

• Gene Expression and Its Regulation
• Single-Stranded DNA Phages
• Genetic Tools for Dissecting Motility and Development of Myxococcus xanthus
• Molecular Mechanism of Quorum Sensing
• Transduction in Gram-Negative Bacteria
• Genetic Approaches in Bacteria with No Natural Genetic Systems

The editors also cultivate an attention to global regulatory systems throughout the book, elucidating how certain genes and operons in bacteria, defined as regulons, network and cooperate to suit the needs of the bacterial cell. With clear appreciation for the impact of molecular genomics, this completely revised and updated edition proves that Modern Microbial Genetics remains the benchmark text in its field.Content:
Chapter 1 Prokaryotic DNA Replication (pages 1–26): William Firshein
Chapter 2 DNA Repair Mechanisms and Mutagenesis (pages 27–46): Ronald E. Yasbin
Chapter 3 Gene Expression and Its Regulation (pages 47–84): John D. Helmann
Chapter 4 Bacteriophage Genetics (pages 85–126): Burton S. Guttman and Elizabeth M. Kutter
Chapter 5 Bacteriophage ? and Its Relatives (pages 127–143): Roger W. Hendrix
Chapter 6 Single?Stranded DNA Phages (pages 145–176): J. Eugene LeClerc
Chapter 7 Restriction?Modification Systems (pages 177–225): Robert M. Blumenthal and Xiaodong Cheng
Chapter 8 Recombination (pages 227–241): Stephen D. Levene and Kenneth E. Huffman
Chapter 9 Molecular Applications (pages 245–257): Thomas Geoghegan
Chapter 10 Genetics of Quorum Sensing Circuitry in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (pages 259–272): Daniel J. Hassett, Urs A. Ochsner, Teresa de Kievit, Barbara H. Iglewski, Luciano Passador, Thomas S. Livinghouse, Timothy R. McDermott, John J. Rowe and Jeffrey A. Whitsett
Chapter 11 Endospore Formation in Bacillus subtilis (pages 273–280): Charles P. Moran
Chapter 12 Stress Shock (pages 281–287): Uldis N. Streips
Chapter 13 Genetic Tools for Dissecting Motility and Development of Myxococcus xanthus (pages 289–322): Patricia L. Hartzell
Chapter 14 Agrobacterium Genetics (pages 323–347): Walt Ream
Chapter 15 Two?Component Regulation (pages 349–359): Kenneth W. Bayles and David F. Fujimoto
Chapter 16 Molecular Mechanisms of Quorum Sensing (pages 361–384): Clay Fuqua and Matthew R. Parsek
Chapter 17 Bacterial Transposons—An Increasingly Diverse Group of Elements (pages 385–427): Gabrielle Whittle and Abigail A. Salyers
Chapter 18 Transformation (pages 429–461): Uldis N. Streips
Chapter 19 Conjugation (pages 463–506): Ronald D. Porter
Chapter 20 The Subcellular Entities a.k.a. Plasmids (pages 507–560): Michael H. Perlin
Chapter 21 Transduction in Gram?Negative Bacteria (pages 561–579): George M. Weinstock
Chapter 22 Genetic Approaches in Bacteria with No Natural Genetic Systems (pages 581–602): Carolyn A. Haller and Thomas J. DiChristina