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The bacterial chromosome

Title
The bacterial chromosome / edited by N. Patrick Higgins.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Higgins, N. Patrick.
Description
xv, 559 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Subject
  • Bacterial chromosomes
  • Bacterial genetics
  • Bacteria > genetics
  • Chromosomes, Bacterial
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Allan Campbell -- 1. Where's the beef? : looking for information in bacterial chromosomes / John R. Roth -- 2. The dynamic bacterial genome / Jeffrey G. Lawrence -- 3. Bacteriophages and the bacterial genome / Sherwood Casjens and Roger W. Hendrix -- 4. Global approaches to the bacterial cell as an integrated system / Michael T. Laub, Lucy Shapiro and Harley H. McAdams -- 5. Major nucleoid proteins in the structure and function of the Escherichia coli chromosome / Reid C. Johnson, Lianna M. Johnson, John W. Schmidt and Jeffrey F. Gardner -- 6. Domain behavior and supercoil dynamics in bacterial chromosomes / N. Patrick Higgins, Shuang Deng, Zhenhua Pang, Richard A. Stein, Keith Champion and Dipankar Manna -- 7. Stationary-phase chromosomes / Abraham Minsky and Roberto Kolter -- 8. Replication hits / Kenneth J. Marians -- 9. Initiation of chromosomal replication / Johanna Eltz Camara and Elliott Crooke -- 10. DNA elongation / Manju M. Hingorani and Mike O'Donnell -- 11. SeqA protein binding and the Escherichia coli replication fork / Therese Brendler and Stuart Austin -- 12. Reinitiation of DNA replication / Kenneth N. Kreuzer and Benedicte Michel -- 13. The terminus region of the Escherichia coli chromosome, or, all's well that ends well / Jean-Michel Louarn, Peter Kuempel and Francois Cornet -- 14. Overview of transcription / Jeffrey Roberts -- 15. The structure of bacterial RNA polymerase / Kati Geszvain and Robert Landick -- 16. How transcription initiation can be regulated in bacteria / Simon L. Dove and Ann Hochschild -- 17. Control of transcription termination and antitermination / Irina Artsimovitch -- 18. mRNA decay and processing / Sidney R. Kushner -- 19. Overview of homologous recombination and repair machines / Andrei Kuzminov and Franklin W. Stahl -- 20. The RecA protein / Michael M. Cox -- 21. Homologous recombination by the RecBCD and RecF pathways / Maria Spies and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski -- 22. Recombination machinery : Holliday junction-resolving enzymes / Malcolm F. White -- 23. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : how the MutSLH repair system kills the cell / M. G. Marinus -- 24. Excision repair and bypass / Bernard S. Strauss -- 25. Misalignment-mediated mutations and genetic rearrangements at repetitive DNA sequences / Susan T. Lovett -- 26. DNA transposons : different proteins and mechanisms but similar rearrangements / Keith M. Derbyshire and Nigel D. F. Grindley -- 27. Potential mechanisms for linking Phage Mu transposition with cell physiology / Stella H. North and Hiroshi Nakai -- 28. Chromosome dimer resolution / Francois-Xavier Barre and David J. Sherratt -- 29. Replication of bacterial chromosomes : no longer going around in circles / George Chaconas and Carton W. Chen.
ISBN
1555812325 (hardcover)
LCCN
2004008702
OCLC
  • ocm54989086
  • SCSB-5109817
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries