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Main description:
The aim of this book is to provide detailed protocols for studying the molecular biology of the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and its int- actions with host cells. As established mycobacterial laboratories move - wards exploiting the genome, and laboratories with expertise in other fields apply them to mycobacteria, both traditional and novel methodologies need to be reviewed. Thus the chapters in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protocols range from perspectives on storage of strains and safety issues to the application of the latest functional genomics technologies. The last few years have been remarkable ones for research into M. tuber- losis. The most important landmark by far has been the completion of the genome sequence of the widely studied H37Rv strain (1). We can now predict every protein and RNA molecule made by the pathogen. This information is or will soon be enriched by the addition of genome sequences of other strains from the M. tuberculosis complex: a second strain of M. tuberculosis, My- bacterium bovis, and the vaccine strain, M. bovis BCG. Valuable comparative data will also be provided by the genome sequences of Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium avium, and Streptomyces coelicolor. Another recent milestone for M. tuberculosis has been the development of efficient mutagenesis me- odologies, the lack of which has been a major handicap in functional studies.
Contents:
Plasmid Vectors
Nicola Casali and Sabine Ehrt
Isolation of DNA from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Paul D. van Helden, Thomas C. Victor, Robin M. Warren, and Eileen G. van Helden
Extraction of RNA from Intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Methods, Considerations, and Applications
Irene M. Monahan, Joseph A. Mangan, and Philip D. Butcher
Transposon Mutagenesis in Mycobacteria Using Conditionally Replicating Mycobacteriophages
Stoyan S. Bardarov, Svetoslav S. Bardarov, Jr., and William R. Jacobs, Jr
Gene Replacement and Transposon Delivery Using the Negative Selection Marker sacB
Mary Jackson, Luis Reinaldo Camacho, Brigitte Gicquel, and Christophe Guilhot
Gene Replacement Using Pretreated DNA
Bhavna G. Gordhan and Tanya Parish
Gene Replacement in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis BCG Using rpsL+ as a Dominant Negative Selectable Marker
Peter Sander, Burkhard Springer, and Erik C. Boettger
Transcription Start-Site Mapping
Farahnaz Movahedzadeh, Jorge A. Gonzalez-Y-Merchand, and Robert A. Cox
Fluorescence and Brightfield Cytology of Live M. tuberculosis Cells
Rory P. Cooney, Natalie J. Garton, and Michael R. Barer
Phage Replication Technology for Diagnosis and Drug Susceptibility Testing
Ruth McNerney
Detection of Mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by a Dot Blot Hybridization Strategy
Thomas C. Victor and Paul D. van Helden
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Typing of Mycobacteria
Dick van Soolingen, Petra E. W. de Haas, and Kristin Kremer
Preparation of Culture Filtrate Proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Ida Rosenkrands and Peter Andersen
Analysis of the Capsule of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mamadou Daffe and Marie-Antoinette Laneelle
Analysis of the Lipids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Richard A. Slaydenand Clifton E. Barry, 3rd
In Vitro Model of Hypoxically Induced Nonreplicating Persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Lawrence G. Wayne
Macrophage Virulence Assays
Pauline T. Lukey and Elizabeth U. Hooker
Analysis of Mycobacterium-Infected Macrophages by Immunoelectron Microscopy and Cell Fractionation
Wandy Beatty and David G. Russell
Real-Time PCR Using Molecular Beacons: A New Tool to Identify Point Mutations and to Analyze Gene Expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Riccardo Manganelli, Sanjay Tyagi, and Issar Smith
Electronic Access to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Sequence Data
Julian Parkhill
Proteomics
Joanna C. Betts and Marjorie A. Smith
Functional Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Using DNA Microarrays
Michael Wilson, Martin Voskuil, Dirk Schnappinger, and Gary K. Schoolnik
Storage of Mycobacterial Strains
Kristin Kremer, Tridia van der Laan, and Dick van Soolingen
Safety in the Laboratory
Heidi Alderton and Debbie Smith
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: November, 2010
Pages: 420
Weight: 615g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Infectious Diseases
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