TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
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ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Microbial Linear Plasmids
T2  - Microbiology Monographs,
SN  - 9783540720256
AV  - QH434 
U1  - 579.135 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Medical virology
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Biochemistry
KW  - Cytology
KW  - Microbial genetics
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Microbial Genetics and Genomics
KW  - Biochemistry, general
KW  - Virology
KW  - Cell Biology
N1  - Streptomyces Linear Plasmids: Their Discovery, Functions, Interactions with Other Replicons, and Evolutionary Significance -- Streptomyces Linear Plasmids: Replication and Telomeres -- Catabolic Linear Plasmids -- Linear Plasmids and Phytopathogenicity -- The Linear Hairpin Replicons of Borrelia burgdorferi -- Linear Plasmids and Prophages in Gram-Negative Bacteria -- Retroplasmids: Linear and Circular Plasmids that Replicate via Reverse Transcription -- Linear Protein-Primed Replicating Plasmids in Eukaryotic Microbes -- Hairpin Plasmids from the Plant Pathogenic Fungi Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium oxysporum; ZDB-2-SBL
N2  - Linear plasmids of microbes represent a heterogenous group of extrachromosomal genetic elements initially assumed to be rare and peculiar. However, we now know that they are fairly frequently occurring plasmids in bacterial and eukaryotic species. Viral strategies to avoid shortening of the linear molecules during replication imply a common ancestry. Linear plasmids may be beneficial, neutral or detrimental for the respective host; functions include production of protein toxins, specific catabolic capabilities, antibiotic resistance, pathogenicity factors, and senescence induction. Microbial Linear Plasmids constitutes the first attempt to comprehensively assemble current knowledge of different types of such elements, highlight recent developments in the field, and challenge the distinction between viruses and linear plasmids
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72025-6
ER  -