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Bacterial Conjugation

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Don B. Clewell

    1. Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Bacterial Conjugation A Historical Perspective

    • Neil Willetts
    Pages 1-22

  3. Genetic Organization of Transfer-Related Determinants on the Sex Factor F and Related Plasmids

    • Karin Ippen-Ihler, Ronald A. Skurray
    Pages 23-52

  4. Key Regulatory Aspects of Transfer of F-Related Plasmids

    • Walter B. Dempsey
    Pages 53-73

  5. Broad Host Range Conjugative and Mobilizable Plasmids in Gram-Negative Bacteria

    • Donald G. Guiney
    Pages 75-103

  6. DNA Processing and Replication during Plasmid Transfer between Gram-Negative Bacteria

    • Brian Wilkins, Erich Lanka
    Pages 105-136

  7. Mobilization of Chromosomes and Nonconjugative Plasmids by Cointegrative Mechanisms

    • Cornelia Reimmann, Dieter Haas
    Pages 137-188

  8. Conjugative Pili and Pilus-Specific Phages

    • Laura S. Frost
    Pages 189-221

  9. Plasmid Incompatibility and Replication Control

    • Barbara Lewis Kittell, Donald R. Helinski
    Pages 223-242

  10. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transfer and Stable Incorporation of Foreign Genes in Plants

    • Clarence I. Kado
    Pages 243-254

  11. Conjugal Transfer of Agrobacterium Plasmids

    • Stephen K. Farrand
    Pages 255-291

  12. Conjugative Plasmids of Streptomyces

    • David A. Hopwood, Tobias Kieser
    Pages 293-311

  13. Conjugation and Broad Host Range Plasmids in Streptococci and Staphylococci

    • Francis L. Macrina, Gordon L. Archer
    Pages 313-329

  14. Conjugal Transfer in Anaerobic Bacteria

    • Francis L. Macrina
    Pages 331-348

  15. Sex Pheromones and the Plasmid-Encoded Mating Response in Enterococcus faecalis

    • Don B. Clewell
    Pages 349-367

  16. The Conjugative Transposons of Gram-Positive Bacteria

    • Don B. Clewell, Susan E. Flannagan
    Pages 369-393

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 395-413
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Bacterial plasmids originating in a wide range of genera are being studied from a variety of perspectives in hundreds of laboratories around the globe. These elements are well known for carrying "special" genes that confer important survival properties, frequently neces­ sary under atypical conditions. Classic examples of plasmid-borne genes are those provid­ ing bacterial resistance to toxic substances such as antibiotics, metal ions, and bacte­ riophage. Often included are those determining bacteriocins, which may give the bacterium an advantage in a highly competitive environment. Genes offering metabolic alternatives to the cell under nutritionally stressed conditions are also commonly found on plasmids, as are determinants important to colonization and pathogenesis. It is likely that in many, if not most, cases plasmids and their passenger determinants represent DNA acquired recently by their bacterial hosts, and it is the characteristic mobility of these elements that enables their efficient establishment in new bacterial cells by the process known as conjugation. Whereas many plasmids are fully capable of promoting their own conjugal transfer, others move only with help from coresident elements. The ability of a plasmid to establish itself in a variety of different species is com­ mon, and recent studies have shown that transfer can in some cases occur from bacterial cells to eukaryotes such as yeast.

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  • Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Don B. Clewell

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