Table of Contents
I. Introduction to Mobile DNAs: What They Are, Their Cellular Roles, How They Move, and How to Exploit Them
1. Mobile DNA: an Introduction, Nancy L. Craig
2. Chemical Mechanisms for Mobilizing DNA, Kiyoshi Mizuuchi and Tania A. Baker
3. Putting Mobile DNA to Work: the Toolbox, Jef D. Boeke
4. Chromosome Manipulation by Cre-lox Recombination, Brian Sauer
5. Transposable Elements as Sources of Genomic Variation, Margaret G. Kidwell and Damon R. Lisch
II. Conservative Site-Specific Recombination: Rearrangements That Involve Covalent Protein-DNA Intermediates
6. A Structural View of Tyrosine Recombinase Site-Specific Recombination, Gregory D. Van Duyne
7. l Integrase and the l Int Family, Marco A. Azaro and Arthur Landy
8. Xer Site-Specific Recombination: Promoting Chromosome Segregation: Francois-Xavier Barre and David J. Sheratt
9. Gene Acquisition in Bacteria by Integron-Mediated Site-Specific Recombination, Gavin D. Recchia and David J. Sherratt
10. Conjugative Transposons and Related Mobile Elements, Gordon Churchward
11. Site-Specific Recombination by the Flp Protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Makkuni Jayaram, Ian Grainge, and Gena Tribble
12. Theme and Variation in Tyrosine Recombinases: Structure of a Flp-DNA Complex, Nigel D.F. Grindley
III. Recombination via Direct Transesterifications: Transposition Reactions That Involve Only DNA Intermediates
15. Insertion Sequences Revisted, Michael Chandler and Jacques Mahillon
16. Transposition of IS 911, P. Rosseau, C. Normand, C. Loot, C. Turlan, R. Alazard, G. Dula-Valentin, and M. Chandler
17. Transpoisition of Phage Mu DNA, George Chaconas and Rasika M. Harshey
18. Tn5 Transpoition, William S. Reznikoff
19. Tn7, Nancy Craig
20. Transposon Tn 10, David B. Haniford
21. P Transposable Elements in Drosophila melanogaster, Donald C. Rio
22. The Tc1/mariner Family of Transposable Elements, Ronald H.A. Plasterk and Henri G.A.M. van Luenen
23. MuDR/Mu Transposable Elements of Maize, Virginia Walbot and George N. Rudenko
24. The hAT and CACTA Superfamilies of Planet Transposons, Reinhard Kunze and Clifford F. Weil
IV. Recombination via Direct Transesterifications: Transposition Reactions That Involve RNA and DNA Intermediates
25. Retroviral DNA Integration, Robert Craigie
26. Ty1 and Ty5 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Daniel F. Voytas and Jef D. Boeke
27. Ty3: a Position-Specific, Gypsy-Like Element in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Suzanne B. Sandmeyer, Michael Aye, and Thomas Menees
28. Newly Identified Retrotransposons of the Ty3/gypsy Class in Fungi, Plants, and Vertebrates, Henry L. Levin
V. Gene Assembly by Recombination
29. V(D)J Recombination, Martin Gellert
30. Genome-Wide Rearrangements of DNA in Ciliates, Meng-Chao Yao, Sandra Duharcourt, and Douglas L. Chalker
VI. Non-Long Terminal Repeat Elements: Target-Primed Reverse Transcription
31. Mobile Introns: Pathways and Proteins, Marlene Belfort, Victoria Derbyshire, Monica M. Parker, Benoit Cousineau, and Alan M. Lambowitz
32. Retrons, Kunitoshi Yamanaka, Tadashi Shimamoto, Sumiko Inouye, and Masayouri Inouye
33. I Elements in Drosophila melanogaster, Alain Bucheton, Isabelle Busseau, and Danielle Teninges
34. R2 and Related Site-Specific Non-Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons, Thomas H. Eickbush
35. Mammalian LINE-1 Retrotransposons and Related Elements, John V. Moran and Nicolas Gilbert
36. Telomeres and Transposable Elements, Mary-Lou Pardue and P.G. DeBaryshe
VII. Other Mobile DNAs
37. IS91 Rolling-Circle Transposition, M. Pilar Garcillan-Barcia, Irantzu Bernales, M. Victoria Mendiola, and Fernando de la Cruz
38. Adeno-Associated Virus, Richard H. Smith, Jr., and Robert M. Kotin
VIII. Transfer of Information Via Gene Conversions
39. Switching of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mating-Type Genes, James E. Haber
40. Antigenic Variation in Eukaryotic Parasites, Piet Borst
41. Antigenic Variation by Relapsing Fever Borrelia Species and Other Bacterial Pathogens, Alan Barbour
IX. Genomes and Mobile DNAs
42. Control of Mobile DNA, Nina Fedoroff
43. Interactions between Transposable Elements and the Host Genome, Mariano Labrador and Victor G. Corces
44. Eubacterial Genomes, Allan Campbell
45. Mobile Genetic Elements and Bacterial Pathogenesis, Brigid M. Davisand Matthew K. Waldor
46. Archael Mobile DNA, Peter Redder, David Faguy, Kim Brugger, Qunxin She, and Roger A. Garrett
47. Mobile Elements in Animal and Plant Genomes, Prescott L. Deininger and Astrid M. Roy-Engel
48. Evolution of DNA Transposons in Eukaryotes, Hugh M. Robertson
49. Origins and Evolution of Retrotransposons, Thomas H. Eickbush and Harmit S. Malik
X. Newly Discovered Transposon Families
50. Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements and Their Relationship to Established DNA Transposons, Cedrin Feschotte, Xiaoyu Zhang, and Susan R. Wessler
