The bacterial chromosome - Higgins, Norman Patrick (Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, 2005)
Where's the beef? Looking for information about bacterial chromosomes / John R. Roth -- The dynamic bacterial genome / Jeffrey G. Lawrence -- Bacteriophages and the bacterial genome / Sherwood Casjens and Roger W. Hendrix -- Global approaches to the bacterial cell as an integrated system / Michael T. Laub, Lucy Shapiro, and Harley H. McAdams -- Major nucleoid proteins in the structure and function of the Escherichia coli chromosome / Reid C. Johnson ... [et al.] -- Domain behavior and supercoil dynamics in bacterial chromosomes / N. Patrick Higgins ... [et al.] -- Stationary-phase chromosomes / Abraham Minsky and Roberto Kolter -- Replication hits 50 / Kenneth J. Marians -- Initiation of chromosomal replication / Johanna Eltz Camara and Elliott Crooke -- DNA elongation / Manju M. Hingorani and Mike O'Donnell -- SeqA protein binding and the Escherichia coli replication fork / Therese Brendler and Stuart Austin -- Reinitiation of DNA replication / Kenneth N. Kreuzer and Be??ne??dicte Michel -- The terminus region of the Escherichia coli chromosome, or, all's well that ends well / Jean-Michel Louarn, Peter Kuempel, and Franc??ois Cornet -- Overview of transcription / Jeffrey Roberts -- The structure of bacterial RNA polymerase / Kati Geszvain and Robert Landick -- How transcription initiation can be regulated in bacteria / Simon L. Dove and Ann Hochschild -- Control of transcription termination and antitermination / Irina Artsimovitch -- mRNA decay and processing / Sidney R. Kushner -- Overview of homologous recombination and repair machines / Andrei Kuzminov and Franklin W. Stahl -- The RecA protein / Michael M. Cox -- Homologous recombination by the RecBCD and RecF pathways / Maria Spies and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski -- Recombination machinery: holliday junction-resolving enzymes / Malcolm F. White -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: how the MutSLH repair system kills the cell / M.G. Marinus -- Excision repair and bypass / Bernard S. Strauss -- Misalignment-mediated mutations and genetic rearrangements at repetitive DNA sequences / Susan T. Lovett -- DNA transposons: different proteins and mechanisms but similar rearrangements / Keith M. Derbyshire and Nigel D.F. Grindley -- Potential mechanisms for linking phage Mu transposition with cell physiology / Stella N. North and Hiroshi Nakai -- Chromosome dimer resolution / Franc??ois-Xavier Barre and David J. Sherratt -- Replication of bacterial chromosomes: no longer going around in circles / George Chaconas and Carton W. Chen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Chromosomes, Bacterial; Bacteria