附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Taxonomy of Mollicutes / Karl-Erik Johansson and Bertil Pettersson -- 2. Phylogeny and Evolution / Jack Maniloff -- 3. Mycoplasmas of Humans / Alain Blanchard and Cecile M. Bebear -- 4. Mycoplasmas of Animals / Joachim Frey -- 5. Mycoplasmas of Plants and Insects / Erich Seemuller, Monique Garnier and Bernd Schneider -- 6. Cell Division / Makoto Miyata -- 7. The Cell Membrane and Transport / Ake Wieslander and Maria Rosen -- 8. Central Carbohydrate Pathways: Metabolic Flexibility and the Extra Role of Some "Housekeeping" Enzymes / J. Dennis Pollack -- 9. Database Systems for the Analysis of Biochemical Pathways / Isabel Rojas-Mujica and Erich Bornberg-Bauer -- 10. Mycoplasmas and the Minimal Genome Concept / Clyde A. Hutchison III and Michael G. Montague -- 11. Comparative Genome Analysis of the Mollicutes / Thomas Dandekar, Berend Snel and Steffen Schmidt / [and others] -- 12. Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Mollicutes / January Weiner III, Carl-Ulrich Zimmermann and Barbara Ueberle / [and others] -- 13. DNA Replication, Repair and Stress Response / Nianxiang Zou and Kevin Dybvig -- 14. Transcription and Translation / Akira Muto and Chisato Ushida -- 15. Extrachromosomal Elements and Gene Transfer / Joel Renaudin -- 16. Restriction-Modification Systems and Chromosomal Rearrangements in Mycoplasmas / Ramakrishnan Sitaraman and Kevin Dybvig -- 17. Invasion of Mycoplasmas into and Fusion with Host Cells / Shlomo Rottem -- 18. Apoptotic, Antiapoptotic, Clastogenic and Oncogenic Effects / Shyh-Ching Lo -- 19. Genetic Mechanisms of Surface Variation / David Yogev, Glenn F. Browning and Kim S. Wise -- 20. Immunomodulation by Mycoplasmas: Artifacts, Facts and Active Molecules / Peter F. Muhlradt -- 21. Mycoplasma arthritidis Pathogenicity: Membranes, MAM and MAV1 / Leigh R. Washburn and Barry C. Cole -- 22. Cytadherence and the Cytoskeleton / Mitchell F. Balish and Duncan C. Krause -- 23. Mycoplasma pneumoniae Disease Manifestations and Epidemiology / Enno Jac
摘要:This text is a comprehensive, multi-authored treatise intended for mycoplasmologists as well as molecular biologists, geneticists and bioinformatics researchers newly attracted to mycoplasmas as research models.
