The spirochetes
Subtitle: molecular and cellular biology
By: edited by Milton H. Saier, Jr. and Jorge García-Lara.
Contributors: Saier, Milton H.; García-Lara, Jorge.
Series: JMMB symposium series ;; v. 3
Publisher: Horizon Scientific
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Wymondham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Spirochetes -- Congresses.; Spirochætales -- Congrès.
Genres: Congresses.; Congrès.
Other titles: Journal of molecular microbiology and biotechnology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Phylogenetic foundation of spirochetes; title: Ch. 2. Gyrations, rotations, periplasmic flagella: the biology of spirochete motility; title: Ch. 3. The role of chemotaxis in pathogenesis of spirochetes; title: Ch. 4. Bacteriophages of Borrelia burgdoferi and other spirochetes; title: Ch. 5. The genetics of lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in leptospira; title: Ch. 6. Tick-host interactions in spirochete transmission; title: Ch. 7. Genome analyses of spirochetes: a study of the protein structures, functions and metabolic pathways in treponema pallidum and Borrelia burgdorferi; title: Ch. 8. Whole genome analyses of transporters in spirochetes: borrelia burgdorferi and treponema pallidum; title: Ch. 9. Borrelia genomes; title: Ch. 10. Repetition, conservation, and variation: the multiple cp32 plasmids of Borrelia species; title: Ch. 11. Antibiotic selective markers and spirochete genetics; title: Ch. 12. DNA exchange and insertional inactivation in spirochetes; title: Ch. 13. Development of shuttle vectors for spirochetes; title: Ch. 14. The role of genomics in approaching the study of Borrelia DNA replication; title: Ch. 15. Technological advances in the molecular biology of Leptospira; title: Ch. 16. The many faces of Borrelia burgdoferi; title: Ch. 17. Transcriptional regulation in spirochetes of medical importance; title: Ch. 18. Biology of Treponema pallidum: correlation of functional activities with genome sequence data.