Microbial Linear Plasmids

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meinhardt, Friedhelm (Editor), Klassen, Roland (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Microbiology Monographs, 7
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Virology.; Biotechnology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Microbiology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Biology.

Linear plasmids of microbes represent a heterogenous group of extrachromosomal genetic elements initially assumed to be rare and peculiar. However, we now know that they are fairly frequently occurring plasmids in bacterial and eukaryotic species. Viral strategies to avoid shortening of the linear m...

Table of Contents:

• Streptomyces Linear Plasmids: Their Discovery, Functions, Interactions with Other Replicons, and Evolutionary Significance
• Streptomyces Linear Plasmids: Replication and Telomeres
• Catabolic Linear Plasmids
• Linear Plasmids and Phytopathogenicity
• The Linear Hairpin Replicons of Borrelia burgdorferi
• Linear Plasmids and Prophages in Gram-Negative Bacteria
• Retroplasmids: Linear and Circular Plasmids that Replicate via Reverse Transcription
• Linear Protein-Primed Replicating Plasmids in Eukaryotic Microbes
• Hairpin Plasmids from the Plant Pathogenic Fungi Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium oxysporum.