At head of t.p. : Sixty-first Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology held at Warwick University April 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index

Microbial reaction to environment: bacterial stress responses revisited in the genomic-proteomic era / F. C. Neidhardt -- Gene variation and gene regulation in bacterial pathogenesis / D. Hood and R. Moxon -- DNA typology and regulation of bacterial gene expression / C. J. Dorman -- DNA rearrangements and regulation of gene expression / I. C. Blomfield -- Structures of multisubunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerases / R. D. Finn, E. V. Orlova, M. van Heel and M. Buck -- The ECF sigma factors of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) / M. S. B. Paget, H.-J. Hong, M. J. Bibb and M. J. Buttner -- Secrets of bacterial transcription initiation taught by the Escherichia coli FNR protein / D. Browning, D. Lee, J. Green and S. Busby -- What can be learned from the LacR family of Escherichia coli? / B. Mller-Hill -- Regulation of the L-arabinose operon in Escherichia coli / R. Schleif -- Transcription termination control in bacteria / T. M. Henkin -- Antisense RNAs in programmed cell death / K. Gerdes and J. Moller-Jensen -- Control of signal transduction in the sporulation phosphorelay / J. A. Hoch -- A stranglehold on a transcriptional activator by its partner regulatory protein--the case of the NifL-NifA two-component regulatory system / R. Dixon -- Is anybody here? Cooperative bacterial gene regulation via peptide signalsbetween Gram-positive bacteria / D. A. Morrison -- Quorum sensing in Gram-negative bacteria: global regulons controlled by cell-density-dependent chemical signaling / N. A. Whitehead, A. K. P. Harris, P. Williams and G. P. C. Salmond.