Overview
- Editors:
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Remus T. Dame
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Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Division of Physics and Astronomy Section Physics of Complex Systems, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Charles J. Dorman
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Department of Microbiology School of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
- Provides an up to date review on bacterial chromatin
- Covers the molecular and cellular level across disciplinary boundaries
- Addresses cross-kingdom differences and similarities
- Outstanding quality of the authors – the chapters are written by the world's leading experts in the field
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Structure and Organization of the Bacterial Chromosome
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- Finbarr Hayes, Daniela Barillà
Pages 49-70
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- N. Patrick Higgins, B. M. Booker, Dipankar Manna
Pages 117-148
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Chromatin Organization in Archaea and Eukaryotes
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Front Matter
Pages 204-204
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- Stephen D. Bell, Malcolm F. White
Pages 205-217
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- Andrew Travers, Georgi Muskhelishvili
Pages 219-241
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Regulation by Nucleoid-Associated Proteins
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Front Matter
Pages 244-244
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- Georgi Muskhelishvili, Andrew Travers
Pages 323-351
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- Stacey N. Peterson, Norbert O. Reich
Pages 353-364
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- Amalia Muñoz, Marc Valls, Víctor de Lorenzo
Pages 365-393
About this book
The birth and the development of molecular biology and, subsequently, of genetic engineering and biotechnology cannot be separated from the advancements in our knowledge of the genetics, biochemistry and physiology of bacteria and bacter- phages. Also most of the tools employed nowadays by biotechnologists are of bacterial (or bacteriophage) origin and the playground for most of the DNA manipulations still remains within bacteria. The relative simplicity of the bacterial cell, the short gene- tion times, the well defined and inexpensive culturing conditions which characterize bacteria and the auto-catalytic process whereby a wealth of in-depth information has been accumulated throughout the years have significantly contributed to generate a large number of knowledge-based, reliable and exploitable biological systems. The subtle relationships between phages and their hosts have produced a large amount of information and allowed the identification and characterization of a number of components which play essential roles in fundamental biological p- cesses such as DNA duplication, recombination, transcription and translation. For instance, to remain within the topic of this book, two important players in the or- nization of the nucleoid, FIS and IHF, have been discovered in this way. Indeed, it is difficult to find a single fundamental biological process whose structural and functional aspects are better known than in bacteria.
Editors and Affiliations
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Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Remus T. Dame
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Division of Physics and Astronomy Section Physics of Complex Systems, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Remus T. Dame
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Department of Microbiology School of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Charles J. Dorman
