Bacillus subtilis and its Closest Relatives: From Genes to Cells
Edited by:
- Abraham L. Sonenshein,
- James A. Hoch &
- Richard Losick
ASM Press: 2001. 646 pp. $149.95
Bacillus subtilis has been touted as the model organism for Gram-positive bacteria as well as for microbial cell differentiation for many years. This vision — inspired by work in the late 1950s by John Spizizen and Pierre Schaeffer — has come to fruition and is embodied in this comprehensive review of all aspects of B. subtilis physiology and genomic information. This text is more comprehensive than an update of the previous Bacillus subtilis and Other Gram-Positive Bacteria (ASM Press, 1993), by the same group of editors, in which physiological and genetic information of different Gram-positive bacteria was catalogued in detail, but with little integration between the two. It is inevitable that this new volume will also be compared with the other major prokaryotic reference, Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology, edited by Frederick Niedhardt (ASM Press, 1996), and covering the biochemistry of Gram-negative bacteria. This new work not only provides a biochemical view from the Gram-positive perspective of the bacterial fence, but is in a different league with respect to the scope of its coverage.
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