Includes bibliographical references and index.

Where's the beef? looking for information about bacterial chromosomes / John R. Roth -- The dynamic bacterial genome / Jeffrey G. Lawrence -- Bacteriophages and the bacterial genome / Sherwood Casjens and Roger W. Hendrix -- Global approaches to the bacterial cell as an integrated system / Michael T. Laub, Lucy Shapiro, and Harley H. McAdams -- Major nucleoid proteins in the structure and function of the Escherichia coli chromosome / Reid C. Johnson ... [et al.] -- Domain behavior and supercoil dynamics in bacterial chromosomes / N. Patrick Hggins ... [et al.] -- Stationary-phase chromosomes / Abraham Minsky and Roberto Kolter -- Replication hits 50 / Kenneth J. Marians -- Initiation of chromosomal replication / Johanna Camara and Elliott Crooke -- DNA elongation / Manju M. Hingorani and Mike O'Donnell -- Seqa protein binding and the Escherichia coli replication fork / Therese Brendler and Stuart Austin -- Reinitiation of dna replication / Kenneth N. Kreuzer and Benedicte Michel -- The terminus region of the Escherichia coli chromosome, or all's well that ends well / Jean-Michel Louarn, Peter Kuempel, and Francois Cornet -- Overview / Jeffrey Roberts -- The structure of bacterial RNA polymerase / Kati Geszvain and Robert Landick -- How transcription initiation can be regulated in bacteria / Simon L. Dove and Ann Hochschild -- Control of transcription termination and antitermination / Irina Artsimovitch -- mRNA decay and processing / Sidney R. Kushner -- Overview of homologous recombination-repair machines / Andrei Kuzminov and Franklin W. Stahl -- The RecA protein / Michael M. Cox -- Homologous recombination by the RecBCD and RecF pathways / Maria Spies and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski -- Recombination machinery: holliday junction resolving enzymes / Malcolm F. White -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: how the mutslh repair system kills the cell / M.G. Marinus -- Excision repair and bypass / Bernard S. Strauss -- Misalignment-mediated mutations and genetic rearrangements at repetitive DNA sequences / Susan T. Lovett -- DNA transposons: different proteins and mechanisms, but similar rearrangements / Keith M. Drbyshire and Nigel D.F. Grindley -- Potential mechanisms for linking phage Mu transposition with cell physiology -- Stella N. North and Hiroshi Nakai -- Chromosome dimer resolution / Franoois-Xavier Barre and David J. Sherratt -- Linear chromosomes in bacteria: no longer going around in circles / George Chaconas and Carton W. Chen.