Editor's preface; 1. Microbial reaction to environment: bacterial stress
responses revisited in the genomic-proteomic era F. C. Neidhardt; 2. Gene
variation and gene regulation in bacterial pathogenesis D. Hood and R.
Moxon; 3. DNA topology and regulation of bacterial gene expression C. J.
Dorman; DNA rearrangements and regulation of gene expression I. C.
Blomfield; 4. Structures of multisubunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerases R.
D. Finn, E. V. Orlova, M. van Heel and M. Buck; 5. The ECF sigma factors of
Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) M. S. B. Paget, H-J. Hong, M. Bibb and M. J.
Buttner; 6. Secrets of bacterial transcription initiation taught by the
Escherichia coli FNR protein D. Browning, D. Lee, J. Green and S. Busby; 7.
What can be learned from the LacR family of Escherichia coli? B.
Muller-Hill; 8. Regulation of the L-arabinose operon in Escherichia coli R.
Schleif; 9. Transcription termination control in bacteria T. M. Henkin; 10.
Antisense RNAs in programmed cell death K. Gerdes; 11. Control of signal
transduction in the sporulation phosphorelay J. A. Hoch; 12. A stranglehold
on a transcriptional activator by its partner regulatory protein - the case
of the NifL-NifA two-component regulatory system R. Dixon; 13. Is anybody
here? Cooperative bacterial gene regulation via peptide signals between
Gram-positive bacteria D. A. Morrison; 14. Quorum sensing in Gram-negative
bacteria: global regulons controlled by cell-density-dependent chemical
signalling N. A. Whitehead, A. K. P. Harris, P. Williams and G. P. C.
Salmond; Index.
