Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Plasmids: Selective View of Their History, Donald R. Helinski
I. Plasmid Replication Systems
2. Participating Elements in the Replication of Iteron-Containing Plasmids, Ricardo Kruger, Sheryl A. Rakowski, and Marcin Filutowicz
3. Plasmid Replication Control by Antisense RNAs, Sabine Brantl
4. Rolling-Circle Replication, Saleem A. Khan
II. Plasmid Maintenance and Inheritance
5. Partition Systems of Bacterial Plasmids, Barbara E. Funnell and Roderick A. Slavcev
6. Genetic Addiction: a Principle of Gene Symbiosis in a Genome, Ichizo Kobayashi
7. DNA Site-Specific Resolution Systems, Bernard Hallet, Virginie Vanhooff, and Francois Cornet
8. Topological Behavior of Plasmid DNA, N. Patrick Higgins and Alexander V. Vologodskii
9. Bacterial Conjugation in Gram-Negative Bacteria, Trevor Lawley, Brian M. Wilkins, and Laura S. Frost
10. Conjugation in Gram-Positive Bacteria, Don B. Clewell and M. Victoria Francia
III. Specific Plasmid Systems
11. Plasmid Strategies for Broad-Host-Range Replication in Gram-Negative Bacteria, Aresa Toukdarian
12. The Symbiotic Plasmids of the Rhizobiaceae, David Romero and Susana Brown
13. Linear Plasmids in Bacteria: Common Origins, Uncommon Ends, Philip Stewart, Patricia A. Rosa, and Kit Tilly
14. The 2um Plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Makkuni Jayaram, XianMei Yang, Shwetal Mehta, Yuri Voziyanov, and Soundarapandian Velmurugan
15. Viral Plasmids in Mammalian Cells, Lori Frappier
16. Degradative Plasmids, Naota Ogawa, Ananda M. Chakrabarty, and Olga Zaborina
17. Archaeal Plasmids, Roger A. Garrett, Peter Redder, Bo Greve, Kim Brugger, Lanming Chen, and Qunxin She
IV. Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids
18. Genome-Scale Analysis of Virulence Plasmids: the Contribution of Plasmid-Borne Virulence Genes in Enterobacterial Pathogenesis, Malabi M. Venkatesan and Valerie Burland
19. Virulence Plasmids of Spore-Forming Bacteria, Julian I. Rood
20. Virulence Plasmids of Yersinia: Characteristics and Comparison, Luther E. Lindler
21. Virulence Plasmids of Nonsporulating Gram-Positive Pathogens, Chris M. Pillar and Michael S. Gilmore
22. The Agrobacterium Ti Plasmids, Peter J. Christie
23. Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids, Diane E. Taylor, Amera Gibreel, Trevor D. Lawley, and Dobryan M. Tracz
24. Plasmids pJM1 and PColV-K30 Harbor Iron Uptake Genes That Are Essential for Bacterial Virulence, Jorge H. Crosa
V. Plasmid Ecology and Evolution
25. Evolution and Population Genetics of Bacterial Plasmids, Christopher M. Thomas
26. Second Chromosomes and Megaplasmids in Bacteria, Shawn R. MacLellan, Christopher D. Sibley, and Turlough M. Finan
VI. Plasmids as Genetic Tools
27. Plasmid Vectors for Gene Cloning and Expression, Quinn Lu
28. Plasmids as Genetic Tools for Stuyd of Bacterial Gene Function, Gregory J. Phillips
29. Plasmids as Tools for Containment, Begona Torres, Jose L. Garcia, and Eduardo Diaz
