Overview
Widely hailed upon its publication in 1980, the first edition of Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg's DNA Replication is regarded as a classic of modern science. Kornberg's insights and his descriptions of the enzymology of DNA replication drew together the many aspects of the field within one authoritative volume and made it the standard reference in the field. Now this distinctive work has been completely revised to reflect current research and interpretations. Arthur Kornberg and his coauthor Tania A. Baker have created an exceptional Second Edition that provides the reader with up-to-date coverage of DNA replication and related cellular processes-including excellent summaries of recent work on replication in eukaryotes and bacteria.Features of the Second Edition: expanded coverage of DNA polymerases, primases and primosomes, helicases, topoisomerases, DNA-binding protein, plasmids and organelles, and chromosomal origins, the latest on mechanisms of replication initiation in prokaryotes and their essential recapitulation in eukaryotic systems, summaries of the replication cycles of many prokaryotic and eukaryotic viruses and plasmids, presented in the framework of their life cycles, related aspects of RNA synthesis and DNA repair, modification, recombination, and chromosomal segregation.
About the Author:
Arthur Kornberg is Professor Emeritus on active duty in the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University
About the Author:
Tania A. Baker is the E. C. Whitehead Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Draws together all aspects of DNA replication & related cellular processes into one authoritative volume, making it the standard reference in the field...features related aspects of RNA synthesis & DNA repair."