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American Society for Microbiology Plasmid Biology by Barbara E Funnell , Gregory J Phillips
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 Contents1. Introduction to Plasmids: Selective View of Their History, Donald R. HelinskiI. Plasmid Replication Systems2. Participating Elements in the Replication of Iteron-Containing Plasmids, Ricardo Kruger, Sheryl A. Rakowski, and Marcin Filutowicz3. Plasmid Replication Control by Antisense RNAs, Sabine Brantl4. Rolling-Circle Replication, Saleem A. KhanII. Plasmid Maintenance and Inheritance5. Partition Systems of Bacterial Plasmids, Barbara E. Funnell and Roderick A. Slavcev6. Genetic Addiction: a Principle of Gene Symbiosis in a Genome, Ichizo Kobayashi7. DNA Site-Specific Resolution Systems, Bernard Hallet, Virginie Vanhooff, and Francois Cornet8. Topological Behavior of Plasmid DNA, N. Patrick Higgins and Alexander V. Vologodskii9. Bacterial Conjugation in Gram-Negative Bacteria, Trevor Lawley, Brian M. Wilkins, and Laura S. Frost10. Conjugation in Gram-Positive Bacteria, Don B. Clewell and M. Victoria FranciaIII. Specific Plasmid Systems11. Plasmid Strategies for Broad-Host-Range Replication in Gram-Negative Bacteria, Aresa Toukdarian12. The Symbiotic Plasmids of the Rhizobiaceae, David Romero and Susana Brown13. Linear Plasmids in Bacteria: Common Origins, Uncommon Ends, Philip Stewart, Patricia A. Rosa, and Kit Tilly14. The 2um Plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Makkuni Jayaram, XianMei Yang, Shwetal Mehta, Yuri Voziyanov, and Soundarapandian Velmurugan15. Viral Plasmids in Mammalian Cells, Lori Frappier16. Degradative Plasmids, Naota Ogawa, Ananda M. Chakrabarty, and Olga Zaborina17. Archaeal Plasmids, Roger A. Garrett, Peter Redder, Bo Greve, Kim Brugger, Lanming Chen, and Qunxin SheIV. Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids18. Genome-Scale Analysis of Virulence Plasmids: the Contribution of Plasmid-Borne Virulence Genes in Enterobacterial Pathogenesis, Malabi M. Venkatesan and Valerie Burland19. Virulence Plasmids of Spore-Forming Bacteria, Julian I. Rood20. Virulence Plasmids of Yersinia: Characteristics and Comparison, Luther E. Lindler21. Virulence Plasmids of Nonsporulating Gram-Positive Pathogens, Chris M. Pillar and Michael S. Gilmore22. The Agrobacterium Ti Plasmids, Peter J. Christie23. Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids, Diane E. Taylor, Amera Gibreel, Trevor D. Lawley, and Dobryan M. Tracz24. Plasmids pJM1 and PColV-K30 Harbor Iron Uptake Genes That Are Essential for Bacterial Virulence, Jorge H. CrosaV. Plasmid Ecology and Evolution25. Evolution and Population Genetics of Bacterial Plasmids, Christopher M. Thomas26. Second Chromosomes and Megaplasmids in Bacteria, Shawn R. MacLellan, Christopher D. Sibley, and Turlough M. FinanVI. Plasmids as Genetic Tools27. Plasmid Vectors for Gene Cloning and Expression, Quinn Lu28. Plasmids as Genetic Tools for Stuyd of Bacterial Gene Function, Gregory J. Phillips29. Plasmids as Tools for Containment, Begona Torres, Jose L. Garcia, and Eduardo Diaz