Plasmids : biology and impact in biotechnology and discovery / edited by Marcelo E. Tolmasky, Center for Applied Biotechnology Studies, Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University, Fullerton, and Juan C. Alonso, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Departamento de Biotecnología Microbiana, Madrid, Spain.

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English
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  • Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2015]
  • ©2015
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xxi, 697 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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    Contents
    • 1. Historical Events That Spawned the Field of Plasmid Biology / Clarence I. Kado
    • 2. Iteron Plasmids / Katarzyna Wegrzyn
    • 3. Mechanisms of Theta Plasmid Replication / Manel Camps
    • 4. Plasmid Rolling-Circle Replication / Gloria del Solar
    • 5. Replication and Maintenance of Linear Phage-Plasmid N15 / Nikolai V. Ravin
    • 6. Plasmid Replication Control by Antisense RNAs / Sabine Brantl
    • 7. Topological Behavior of Plasmid DNA / Alexander V. Vologodskii
    • 8. Plasmid Partition Mechanisms / Barbara E. Funnell
    • 9. Resolution of Multimeric Forms of Circular Plasmids and Chromosomes / Philippe Rousseau
    • 10. Conditional Activation of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems: Postsegregational Killing and Beyond / Ramon Diaz-Orejas
    • 11. The Interplay between Different Stability Systems Contributes to Faithful Segregation: Streptococcus pyogenes pSM19035 as a Model / Juan C. Alonso
    • 12. The CRISPR-Cas Immune System and Genetic Transfers: Reaching an Equilibrium / Sylvain Moineau
    • 13. Plasmid Diversity and Adaptation Analyzed by Massive Sequencing of Escherichia coli Plasmids / Fernando de la Cruz
    • 14. Conjugation in Gram-Positive Bacteria / Elisabeth Grohmann
    • 15. Mobilizable Rolling-Circle Replicating Plasmids from Gram-Positive Bacteria: A Low-Cost Conjugative Transfer / Manuel Espinosa
    • 16. The Plasmid Mobilome of the Model Plant Symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti: Coming up with New Questions and Answers / Mariano Pistorio
    • 17. The Agrobacterium Ti Plasmids / Peter J. Christie
    • 18. The Influence of Biofilms in the Biology of Plasmids / Gary M. Dunny
    • 19. The Partitioning and Copy Number Control Systems of the Selfish Yeast Plasmid: An Optimized Molecular Design for Stable Persistence in Host Cells / Makkuni Jayaram
    • 20. Plasmids from Euryarchaeota / Nicolas Soler
    • 21. The Plasmidome of Firmicutes: Impact on the Emergence and the Spread of Resistance to Antimicrobials / Teresa M. Coque
    • 22. Plasmid-Mediated Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococci and Other Firmicutes / Cong-Ming Wu
    • 23. Plasmid Detection, Characterization, and Ecology / Eva M. Top
    • 24. Plasmid-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence in Gram-Negatives: The Klebsiella pneumoniae Paradigm / Marcelo E. Tolmasky
    • 25. Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance / David C. Hooper
    • 26. Plasmid-Mediated Tolerance Toward Environmental Pollutants / Juan Luis Ramos
    • 27. Virulence Plasmids of Spore-Forming Bacteria / Julian I. Rood
    • 28. Virulence Plasmids of Nonsporulating Gram-Positive Pathogens / Michael S. Gilmore
    • 29. Plasmid-Encoded Iron Uptake Systems / Michiel Stork
    • 30. DNA Assembly Tools and Strategies for the Generation of Plasmids / Federico Katzen
    • 31. Plasmids as Tools for Containment / Eduardo Diaz
    • 32. Mining Environmental Plasmids for Synthetic Biology Parts and Devices / Victor de Lorenzo
    • 33. Using Plasmids as DNA Vaccines for Infectious Diseases / Ekaterina Kinnear
    • 34. Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals / Gabriel A. Monteiro.
    ISBN
    • 9781555818975 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 1555818978 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2015004787
    OCLC
    892895805
    Other standard number
    • 40025067945
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