Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria

Chapter 1 Plasmids, Phages, and Gene Transfer in Methanogenic Bacteria

Chapter 2 Methanogen Genes and the Molecular Biology of Methane Biosynthesis

Chapter 3 Genes for Stable RNAs and Their Expression in Archaea

Chapter 4 Molecular Biology of the Acetoclastic Methanogen Methanothrix soehngenii

Chapter 5 Mutations

Chapter 6 Conjugative Gene Transfer in Clostridia

Chapter 7 Transformation and Electrotransformation in Clostridia

Chapter 8 Vectors for Use in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium acetobutylicum</Emphasis>

Chapter 9 Antibiotic Resistance Determinants of Clostridium perfringens

Chapter 10 Genetics and Molecular Biology of Antibiotic Resistance in Clostridium difficile : General and Specific Overview

Chapter 11 Genetics and Molecular Biology of Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase of Clostridium butyricum

Chapter 12 The Role of Bacteriophages and Plasmids in the Production of Toxins and Other Biologically Active Substances by Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium novyi

Chapter 13 Molecular Biology of Clostridial ADP-Ribosyltransferases and Their Substrates

Chapter 14 Gene Cloning and Organization of the Alpha-Toxin of Clostridium perfringens

Chapter 15 Gene Cloning, Organization, and Expression of <Emphasis Type="Italic">θ</Emphasis>-Toxin of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium perfringens</Emphasis>

Chapter 16 Molecular Biology of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium perfringens</Emphasis> Enterotoxin

Chapter 17 Molecular Genetic Studies of UV-Inducible Bacteriocin Production in Clostridium perfringens

Chapter 18 Genome Mapping of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium perfringens</Emphasis> Type A Strains

Chapter 19 Molecular Biology of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium difficile</Emphasis> Toxins

Chapter 20 Gene Cloning and Expression in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Escherichia coli</Emphasis> of Clostridial Sialidases

Chapter 21 Cloning and Expression of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium acetobutylicum</Emphasis> Genes Involved in Carbohydrate Utilization

Chapter 22 Cloning and Expression of Clostridium acetobutylicum Genes Involved in Solvent Production

Chapter 23 Molecular Analysis of Glutamine Synthetase Genes and Enzymes of Clostridium and Bacteroides

Chapter 24 Phospholipid Biosynthetic Enzymes of Butyric Acid-Producing Clostridia

Chapter 25 The <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium pasteurianum</Emphasis> Ferredoxin Gene

Chapter 26 Organization of the Nitrogen Fixation Genes in Clostridium pasteurianum

Chapter 27 Cloning and Sequencing of the Clostridium pasteurianum Genes Encoding Molybdenum-Pterin-Binding Proteins

Chapter 28 Cloning, Sequencing, and Expressions of Genes Encoding Enzymes of the Autotrophic Acetyl-CoA Pathway in the Acetogen Clostridium thermoaceticum

Chapter 29 Genes and Proteins Involved in Cellulose Degradation by Mesophilic Clostridia

Chapter 30 Genes and Proteins Involved in Cellulose and Xylan Degradation by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium thermocellum</Emphasis>

Chapter 31 Nucleotide Sequence of the Gene and Primary Structure of the Thermophilic β -Amylase from Clostridium thermosulfurogenes

Chapter 32 The <Emphasis Type="Italic">α</Emphasis>-Amylase-Pullulanase (<Emphasis Type="Italic">apu</Emphasis>) Gene from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum</Emphasis>: Nucleotide Sequence and Expression in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Escherichia coli</Emphasis>

Chapter 33 Molecular Biology of Xylan Utilization by Thermoanaerobes

Chapter 34 Genetics and Molecular Biology of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

Chapter 35 Gene Transmission, MLS, and Tetracycline Resistance in Bacteroides

Chapter 36 Transfer of Beta-Lactam Antibiotic Resistance in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacteroides</Emphasis>

Chapter 37 Genetics of 5-Nitroimidazole Resistance in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacteroides</Emphasis>

Chapter 38 Genetics of Polysaccharide Utilization Pathways of Colonic Bacteroides Species

Chapter 39 Molecular Biology of the Fimbriae of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Dichelobacter</Emphasis> (Previously <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacteroides) nodosus</Emphasis>

Chapter 40 Genetic Exchange in Pigmented <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacteroides</Emphasis>

Chapter 41 Porphyromonas gingivalis : Gene Cloning of Determinants of Pathogenicity

Chapter 42 Cloning, Structure, and Expression of Genes of the Anaerobic Rumen Bacteria

Chapter 43 Antigenic Characterization, Taxonomy, and Genetics of Treponema hyodysenteriae

Chapter 44 Nucleic Acid Hybridization for Identification and Detection of Gram-Negative Anaerobes

Chapter 45 Molecular Biology of Bile Acid 7 α -Dehydroxylation in an Intestinal Eubacterium Species

Chapter 46 Cloning and Expression in Escherichia coli of Three Amylase Genes of a Strictly Anaerobic Thermophile, Dictyoglomus thermophilum , and Their Nucleotide Sequences

Chapter 47 A Novel Class of Industrially Important Debranching Enzymes: The Thermoanaerobic Amylopullulanases