According to Graumann (Institut fr Mikrobiologie, U. Freiburg, Germany), research on the prokaryote Bacillus subtilis has been at the forefront of bacterial molecular biology and cytology, and the organism is a model for differentiation, gene/protein regulation, and cell cycle events in bacteria. He presents this volume as both an overview of recent research on B. subtilis and an explanation of the major cytological aspects of a bacterium. The volume's 12 chapters discuss replication of the chromosome, dynamics of DNA double-strand break repair, chromosome segregation, cell division, organization of transcription and translation, RNA-mediated regulation, general and regulatory proteolysis, the actin-like cytoskeleton, the membrane proteome, the cell wall, genomics and cellular biology of endospore formation, and multicellularity and cellular social behavior. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
