Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Plasmids, Phages, and Gene Transfer in Methanogenic Bacteria....Pages 1-12
Methanogen Genes and the Molecular Biology of Methane Biosynthesis....Pages 13-35
Genes for Stable RNAs and Their Expression in Archaea ....Pages 36-53
Molecular Biology of the Acetoclastic Methanogen Methanothrix soehngenii ....Pages 54-63
Mutations....Pages 64-97
Conjugative Gene Transfer in Clostridia....Pages 98-110
Transformation and Electrotransformation in Clostridia....Pages 111-119
Vectors for Use in Clostridium acetobutylicum ....Pages 120-140
Antibiotic Resistance Determinants of Clostridium perfringens ....Pages 141-155
Genetics and Molecular Biology of Antibiotic Resistance in Clostridium difficile : General and Specific Overview....Pages 156-173
Genetics and Molecular Biology of Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase of Clostridium butyricum ....Pages 174-178
The Role of Bacteriophages and Plasmids in the Production of Toxins and Other Biologically Active Substances by Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium novyi ....Pages 179-194
Molecular Biology of Clostridial ADP-Ribosyltransferases and Their Substrates....Pages 195-210
Gene Cloning and Organization of the Alpha-Toxin of Clostridium perfringens ....Pages 211-226
Gene Cloning, Organization, and Expression of θ -Toxin of Clostridium perfringens ....Pages 227-234
Molecular Biology of Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin....Pages 235-247
Molecular Genetic Studies of UV-Inducible Bacteriocin Production in Clostridium perfringens ....Pages 248-254
Genome Mapping of Clostridium perfringens Type A Strains....Pages 255-263
Molecular Biology of the Clostridium difficile Toxins....Pages 264-289
Gene Cloning and Expression in Escherichia coli of Clostridial Sialidases....Pages 290-300
Cloning and Expression of Clostridium acetobutylicum Genes Involved in Carbohydrate Utilization....Pages 301-316
Cloning and Expression of Clostridium acetobutylicum Genes Involved in Solvent Production....Pages 317-343
Molecular Analysis of Glutamine Synthetase Genes and Enzymes of Clostridium and Bacteroides ....Pages 344-353
Phospholipid Biosynthetic Enzymes of Butyric Acid-Producing Clostridia....Pages 354-362
The Clostridium pasteurianum Ferredoxin Gene....Pages 363-372
Organization of the Nitrogen Fixation Genes in Clostridium pasteurianum ....Pages 373-381
Cloning and Sequencing of the Clostridium pasteurianum Genes Encoding Molybdenum-Pterin-Binding Proteins....Pages 382-388
Cloning, Sequencing, and Expressions of Genes Encoding Enzymes of the Autotrophic Acetyl-CoA Pathway in the Acetogen Clostridium thermoaceticum ....Pages 389-406
Genes and Proteins Involved in Cellulose Degradation by Mesophilic Clostridia....Pages 407-411
Genes and Proteins Involved in Cellulose and Xylan Degradation by Clostridium thermocellum ....Pages 412-422
Nucleotide Sequence of the Gene and Primary Structure of the Thermophilic β -Amylase from Clostridium thermosulfurogenes ....Pages 423-431
The α -Amylase-Pullulanase ( apu ) Gene from Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum : Nucleotide Sequence and Expression in Escherichia coli ....Pages 432-442
Molecular Biology of Xylan Utilization by Thermoanaerobes....Pages 443-455
Genetics and Molecular Biology of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria....Pages 456-473
Gene Transmission, MLS, and Tetracycline Resistance in Bacteroides ....Pages 474-489
Transfer of Beta-Lactam Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteroides ....Pages 490-493
Genetics of 5-Nitroimidazole Resistance in Bacteroides ....Pages 494-504
Genetics of Polysaccharide Utilization Pathways of Colonic Bacteroides Species....Pages 505-516
Molecular Biology of the Fimbriae of Dichelobacter (Previously Bacteroides) nodosus ....Pages 517-545
Genetic Exchange in Pigmented Bacteroides ....Pages 546-551
 Porphyromonas gingivalis : Gene Cloning of Determinants of Pathogenicity....Pages 552-568
Cloning, Structure, and Expression of Genes of the Anaerobic Rumen Bacteria....Pages 569-585
Antigenic Characterization, Taxonomy, and Genetics of Treponema hyodysenteriae ....Pages 586-604
Nucleic Acid Hybridization for Identification and Detection of Gram-Negative Anaerobes....Pages 605-617
Molecular Biology of Bile Acid 7 α -Dehydroxylation in an Intestinal Eubacterium Species....Pages 618-628
Cloning and Expression in Escherichia coli of Three Amylase Genes of a Strictly Anaerobic Thermophile, Dictyoglomus thermophilum , and Their Nucleotide Sequences....Pages 629-639
A Novel Class of Industrially Important Debranching Enzymes: The Thermoanaerobic Amylopullulanases....Pages 640-653
Back Matter....Pages 654-705