The Lure of Bacterial Genetics

a Tribute to John Roth
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-55581-538-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 258 mm, Gewicht: 912 g

A unique, rigorous scientific approach to understanding bacterial genetics

Provides a complete overview of the entire field of bacterial genetics, helping the reader to understand how the field has evolved.
Inspires readers by providing an opportunity to learn from John Roth’s achievements and contributions to bacterial genetics.
Offers valuable lessons in the history and science of bacterial genetics by providing a behind the scenes look at some of the most important triumphs and mishaps that have occurred on the path to discovery.

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maloy, Stanley

Hughes, Kelly T

Casadesús, Josep

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bakteriologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION

1. John Roth’s Paths and Pathways, Kelly T. Hughes and Stanley Maloy

2. Giving a Seminar: Suggestions for Graduate Students, John Roth

3. Phage and Bacterial Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Stanley Maloy and Kelly T. Hughes

4. Reflections of a Beer Auxotroph, Thomas J. Silhavy

II. GENE EXPRESSION AND GENETIC REGULATION

5. The Biotin Operon of Escherichia coli, Allan Campbell and Alice del Campillo-Campbell

6. Why Galactose? The Early Curiosities and the Consequences, Sankar Adhya

7. Control of Gene Expression by Compartmentalization: the put Operon, Stanley Maloy

8. Genetics of the Heme Pathway and Its Regulation, Thomas Elliott

9. Regulation of NAD(P) Metabolism in Salmonella, Julianne House Grose

10. Ethanolamine Utilization in Salmonella, David Roof and David Sheppard

11. Fishing for Fluke: the Genetics of Flk and the Flagellar Type 3 Secretion Specificity Switch, Kelly T. Hughes

III. tRNA AND SUPRESSORS

12. Souvenirs from My Genetic Initiation, Lionello Bossi

13. Complementary Studies in the Histidine Operon and on Frameshifting: a Compliment to What Roth Has Wrought, John F. Atkins

14. Adventures with Frameshift Supressor tRNAs, Glenn R. Björk

IV. PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM

15. Microbial Channels: Forbidden Fruit from Missense Rather than Nonsense, Ian R. Booth

16. Of Bacteria and Bile, Josep Casadesús, Sara B. Hernández, Ignacio Cota, and Francisco Ramos-Morales

17. Swarming Adventures, Rasika M. Harshey

18. Using Genetic Approaches To Delineate the Pathway of Contact-Dependent Growth Inhibition, Stephanie K. Aoki and David A. Low

19. Covert Operations: the Adaptable Plan of Attack Deployed by Pathogenic Bacteria, Michael J. Mahan, Robert L. Sinsheimer, William R. Shimp, and Douglas M. Heithoff

20. Phenotypic Variation and Gene Regulation in the Pathogenesis of Salmonella Infection, Brad T. Cookson

V. GENES, CHROMOSOMES, AND REARRANGEMENTS

21. DNA Methylation and Mismatch Repair, Martin Marinus

22. Salmonella Genetics, Kenneth E. Sanderson

23. Finding Inversions, Molly Schmid

24. Barriers to the Formation of Inversion Rearrangements in Salmonella, Lynn Miesel

25. Adventures with Mutation and Selection in Beehive and Cow Country, Diarmaid Hughes and Dan I. Anderson

VI. GENOMES AND EVOLUTION

26. From Genetics to Genomics, Garret Suen, Frank O. Aylward, Steven C. Slater, and Barry S. Goldman

27. Baltimore and Beyond: from Gene Action to the Postgenomic Era, Robert A. LaRossa

28. Three Histories of Competence and Transformation, Rosemary J. Redfield

29. A Plethora of Putative Phages and Prophages, Sherwood R. Casjens

30. Impact of Horizontal Gene Transfer on the Evolution of Bacterial Genomes, Jeffrey G. Lawrence

31. Germline DNA Parasites That Have Converged on an Altruistic Somatic Excision Strategy, Glenn Herrick

32. Recombineering: Advanced-Advanced Bacterial Genetics, James A. Sawitzke

VII. EPILOGUE

33. Predicting the Future: a Fish Story, John Roth