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Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Madaleine Sebald

    1. Unité des Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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Part of the book series: Brock Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience (BROCK/SPRINGER)

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Table of contents (47 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Plasmids, Phages, and Gene Transfer in Methanogenic Bacteria

    • Thomas Leisinger, Leo Meile
    Pages 1-12

  3. Methanogen Genes and the Molecular Biology of Methane Biosynthesis

    • John R. Palmer, John N. Reeve
    Pages 13-35

  4. Genes for Stable RNAs and Their Expression in Archaea

    • Michael Thomm, Winfried Hausner
    Pages 36-53

  5. Molecular Biology of the Acetoclastic Methanogen Methanothrix soehngenii

    • Rik I. L. Eggen, Willem M. de Vos
    Pages 54-63

  6. Mutations

    • Madeleine Sebald
    Pages 64-97

  7. Conjugative Gene Transfer in Clostridia

    • Michael Young
    Pages 98-110

  8. Transformation and Electrotransformation in Clostridia

    • Gilles Reysset
    Pages 111-119

  9. Vectors for Use in Clostridium acetobutylicum

    • Nigel P. Minton, Tracy-Jane Swinfield, John K. Brehm, Sarah M. Whelan, John D. Oultram
    Pages 120-140

  10. Antibiotic Resistance Determinants of Clostridium perfringens

    • Julian I. Rood
    Pages 141-155

  11. Genetics and Molecular Biology of Antibiotic Resistance in Clostridium difficile: General and Specific Overview

    • Herbert Hächler, Fritz H. Kayser
    Pages 156-173

  12. Genetics and Molecular Biology of Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase of Clostridium butyricum

    • Walter L. Staudenbauer, Wolfgang Dubbert
    Pages 174-178

  13. The Role of Bacteriophages and Plasmids in the Production of Toxins and Other Biologically Active Substances by Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium novyi

    • Mel W. Eklund
    Pages 179-194

  14. Molecular Biology of Clostridial ADP-Ribosyltransferases and Their Substrates

    • Klaus Aktories, Gertrud Koch, Ingo Just
    Pages 195-210

  15. Gene Cloning and Organization of the Alpha-Toxin of Clostridium perfringens

    • Richard W. Titball, Helen Yeoman, Sophie E. C. Hunter
    Pages 211-226

  16. Gene Cloning, Organization, and Expression of θ-Toxin of Clostridium perfringens

    • Rodney K. Tweten
    Pages 227-234

  17. Molecular Biology of Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin

    • Per Einar Granum, Gordon S. A. B. Stewart
    Pages 235-247

  18. Molecular Genetic Studies of UV-Inducible Bacteriocin Production in Clostridium perfringens

    • Stewart T. Cole, Thierry Garnier
    Pages 248-254

  19. Genome Mapping of Clostridium perfringens Type A Strains

    • Stewart T. Cole, Bruno Canard
    Pages 255-263

  20. Molecular Biology of the Clostridium difficile Toxins

    • Christoph von Eichel-Streiber
    Pages 264-289
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About this book

The field of bacterial genetics has been restricted for many years to Escherichia coli and a few other genera of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria such as Pseudomonas, Bacillus, and Salmonella. The prevailing view up to recent times has been that anaerobic bacteria are interesting organisms but nothing is known about their genetics. To most microbiologists, anaerobic bacteria appeared as a sort of distant domain, reserved for occasional intrusions by taxonomists and medical microbiologists. By the mid-1970s, knowledge of the genetics and molecular biology of anaerobes began to emerge, and then developed rapidly. but also im­ This was the result of advances in molecular biology techniques, portantly because of improvements in basic techniques for culturing anaerobes and for understanding their biochemistry and other areas of in­ terest. Investigations in this field were also stimulated by a renewal of interest in their ecology, their role in pathology and in biotransformations, and in the search for alternative renewable sources of energy. The initial idea for this book came from Thomas D. Brock. When Dr. Brock requested my opinion about two years ago on the feasibility of publishing a book on the genetics of anaerobic bacteria, as a part of the Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience, I answered positively but I was apprehen­ sive about assuming the role of editor. However, I was soon reassured by the enthusiastic commitment of those I approached to contribute. Eventually, thanks to the caring cooperation of the contributors, the task became relatively easy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Unité des Anaérobies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

    Madaleine Sebald

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria

  • Editors: Madaleine Sebald

  • Series Title: Brock Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7087-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97669-3Due: 18 December 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-7089-9Published: 12 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-7087-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1432-0061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 705

  • Topics: Microbiology, Biotechnology, Medical Microbiology

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