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- English
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Bacterial Integrative Mobile Genetic Elements
About this book
As our understanding of mobile genetic elements continues to grow we are gaining a deeper appreciation of their importance in shaping the bacterial genome and in the properties they confer to their bacterial hosts. These include, but are by no means limited to, resistance to antibiotics, and heavy metals, toxin production and increased virulence, production of antibiotics and the ability to utilize a diverse range of metabolic substrates. We are also gaining an understanding of diversity of these elements and their interactions with each other; a property which continually complicates any attempt to classify them. We are learning more about the molecular mechanisms by which they translocate to new genomic sites both within genomes and between different bacteria. This book provides a timely, state of the art update on the properties of an important selection of different bacterial integrative mobile genetic elements and the myriad of different ways in which they move and influence the biology of the host bacterium. The chapters are all written by authors who have undertaken pioneering work in their respective fields, making this book vital reading for all who are interested in the biology of bacteria and the mobile elements they carry.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- About the Editors
- Contents
- Editors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Transposon Tn7
- 2. Mercury Resistance Transposons
- 3. Integrons: Antibiotic Resistance Evolution and Beyond
- 4. Inteins and Introns
- 5. Restriction-Modification Systems as Mobile Epigenetic Elements
- 6. Mobile Genetic Elements in the Genus Bacteroides, and Their Mechanism(s) of Dissemination
- 7. Mobilisable Genetic Elements from the Clostridia
- 8. pSAM2, a Paradigm for a Family of Actinomycete Integrative and Conjugative Elements
- 9. The Tn916/Tn1545 Family of Conjugative Transposons
- 10. Tn1549 and Closely Related Elements
- 11. The Tn4371 ICE Family of Bacterial Mobile Genetic Elements
- 12. The Integrative and Conjugative Element ICEBs1 of Bacillus subtilis
- 13. Integrating Conjugative Elements of the SXT/R391 Family
- 14. Excision and Transfer of Bacteroides Conjugative Integrated Elements
- 15. Integrative and Conjugative Elements Encoding DDE Transposases
- 16. The clc Element and Related Genomic Islands in Proteobacteria
- 17. Pathogenicity Island Evolution: A Distinct New Class of Integrative Element or a Mosaic of Other Elements?
- 18. Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome (SCC): A Unique Gene Transfer System in Staphylococci
- Index