This authoritative, timely, and comprehensively referenced compendium on the bacteriophages explores current views of how viruses infect bacteria. In combination with classical phage molecular genetics, new structural, genomic, and single-molecule technologies have rendered an explosion in our
knowledge of phages. Bacteriophages, the most abundant and genetically diverse type of organism in the biosphere, were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century and enjoyed decades of used as anti-bacterial agents before being eclipsed by the antibiotic era. Since 1988, phages have come back
into the spotlight as major factors in pathogenesis, bacterial evolution, and ecology. This book reveals their compelling elegence of function and their almost inconceivable diversity.
Much of the founding work in molecular biology and structural biology was done on bacteriophages. These are widely used in molecular biology research and in biotechnology, as probes and markers, and in the popular method of assesing gene expression.
This authoritative, timely, and comprehensively referenced compendium on the bacteriophages explores current views of how viruses infect bacteria. In combination with classical phage molecular genetics, new structural, genomic, and single-molecule technologies have rendered an explosion in our
knowledge of phages. Bacteriophages, the most abundant and genetically diverse type of organism in the biosphere, were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century and enjoyed decades of used as anti-bacterial agents before being eclipsed by the antibiotic era. Since 1988, phages have come back
into the spotlight as major factors in pathogenesis, bacterial evolution, and ecology. This book reveals their compelling elegence of function and their almost inconceivable diversity.
Much of the founding work in molecular biology and structural biology was done on bacteriophages. These are widely used in molecular biology research and in biotechnology, as probes and markers, and in the popular method of assesing gene expression.
Ry Young: Foreword
Contributors
PART I: General Background of Phage Biology
1: William C. Summers: Phage and the Early Development of Molecular
Biology
2: Hans-W. Ackermann: Classification of Bacteriophages
3: Harald Bruüssow: Prophage Genomics
4: Harald Bruüssow and Frank Desiere: Evolution of Tailed Phages:
Insights from Comparative Phage Genomics
5: Stephen T. Abedon: Phage Ecology
PART II: Life of Phages
6: Paul J. Jardine and Dwight L. Anderson: DNA Packaging in
Double-Stranded DNA Phages
7: Allan Campbell: General Aspects of Lysogeny
8: John W. Little: Gene Regulatory Circuitry of Phage l
9 Regulation of l Gene Expression by Transcription Termination and
Antitermination: David I. Friedman and Donald L. Court:
10: Ry Young and Ing-Nang Wang: Phage Lysis
PART III: Cubic and Filamentous Phages
11: Bentley A. Fane, Karie L. Brentlinger, April D. Burch, Min
Chen, SusanHafenstein, Erica Moore, Christopher R. Novak, and Asako
Uchiyama: qX174 et al., the Microviridae
12: Marjorie Russel and Peter Model: Filamentous Phage
13: A. Marika Grahn, Sarah J. Butcher, Jaana K. H. Bamford, and
Dennis H. Bamford: PRD1: Dissecting the Genome, Structure, and
Entry
14: Dennis H. Bamford and Jaana K. H. Bamford: Lipid-Containing
Bacteriophage PM2, the Type Organism of Corticoviridae
15: Jan van Duin and Nina Tsareva: Single-Stranded RNA Phages
16: Leonard Mindich: Phages with Segmented Double-Stranded RNA
Genomes
PART IV: Individual Tailed Phages
17: Gregory J. German, Rajeev Misra, and Andrew M. Kropinski: The
T1-Like Bacteriophages
18: Gisela Mosig and Fred Eiserling: T4 and Related Phages:
Structure and Development
19: Jon R. Sayers: Bacteriophage T5
20: Ian J. Molineux: The T7 Group
21: Krystyna M. Kazmierczak and Lucia B. Rothman-Denes:
Bacteriophage N4
22: Margarita Salas: Phage q29 and its Relatives
23: Juan C. Alonso, Paulo Tavares, Rudi Lurz, and Thomas A.
Trautner: Bacteriophage SPP1
24: Hansjörg Lehnherr: Bacteriophage P1
25: Anders S. Nilsson and Elisabeth Haggård Ljungquist: The P2-Like
Bacteriophages
26: Gianni Dehò and Daniela Ghisotti: The Satellite Phage P4
27: Roger W. Hendrix and Sherwood Casjens: Bacteriophage l and its
Genetic Neighborhood
28: Nikolai V. Ravin: N15: The Linear Plasmid Prophage
29: Peter E. Prevelige, Jr.: Bacteriophage P22
30: Luciano Paolozzi and Patrizia Ghelardini: The Bacteriophage
Mu
PART V: Phages by Host or Habitat
31: Kenneth M. Stedman, David Prangishvili, and Wolfram Zillig:
Viruses of Archaea
32: Nicholas H. Mann: Phages of Cyanobacteria
33: Robert V. Miller: Marine Phages
34: Stefan Hertwig, Mikael Skurnik, and Bernd Appel: Yersinia
Phages
35: Pamela S. Fink and Stanley A. Zahler: Temperate Bacteriophages
of Bacillus subtilis
36: Lone Brønsted and Karin Hammer: Phages of Lactococcus
lactis
37: Martin J. Loessner and Richard Calendar: The Listeria
Bacteriophages
38: Graham F. Hatfull: Mycobacteriophages
39: Margaret C. M. Smith: Molecular Genetics of Streptomyces
Phages
40: Jack Maniloff and Kevin Dybvig: Mycoplasma Phages
41: Harald Brüssow and Juan E. Suárez: Lactobacillus Phages
PART VI: Applications
42: Gregg Bogosian: Control of Bacteriophage in Commercial
Microbiology and Fermentation Facilities
43: Noreen E. Murray: Phage-Based Expression Systems
44: Bjorn H. Lindqvist: Phage in Display
45: Charles P. Gerba: Bacteriophage as Pollution Indicators
46: Cath Rees: The Use of Phage as Diagnostic Systems
47: Patrick L. Wagner and Matthew K. Waldor: Bacteriophages in
Bacterial Pathogenesis
48: Carl R. Merril, Dean Scholl, and Sankar Adhya: Phage
Therapy
Index
Richard Calendar is Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been studying bacteriophages since 1966.
"In summary, the book is a well-edited, comprehensive survey of phage researches and could be recommended for scientists working in various areas of biology."Immunological Investigations
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