| | | Contributors | | |
| | | Preface | | |
| | | Acknowledgments | | |
| I | | General Principles | | |
| 1 | | Structure and Evolution of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks by M. Madan Babu | | 3 |
| 2 | | Architecture and Dynamics of Transcriptional Networks by Uri Alon | | 17 |
| 3 | | Regulation by Alternative Sigma Factors by John D. Helmann | | 31 |
| 4 | | The Role of Two-Component Transduction Systems in Bacterial Stress Responses by Michael T. Laub | | 45 |
| 5 | | Roles of mRNA Stability, Translational Regulation, and Small RNAs in Stress Response Regulation by Susan Gottesman | | 59 |
| 6 | | Role of Proteolysis and Chaperones in Stress Response and Regulation by Kursad Turgay | | 75 |
| II | | Specific Stress Responses | | |
| 7 | | Cellular Response to Heat Shock and Cold Shock by Carol A. Gross | | 93 |
| 8 | | Envelope Stress by Mary E. Laubacher | | 115 |
| 9 | | Osmotic Stress by Janet M. Wood | | 133 |
| 10 | | Sending and Responding to Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species by Stephen Spiro | | 157 |
| 11 | | Global Responses of Bacteria to Oxygen Deprivation by Timothy J. Donohue | | 175 |
| 12 | | Sensing Metals: the Versatility of Fur by Jung-Hye Roe | | 191 |
| 13 | | The DNA Damage Response by Susan T. Lovett | | 205 |
| III | | General Stress Responses | | |
| 14 | | The Stringent Response by Aurelia Battesti | | 231 |
| 15 | | The General Stress Response in Gram-Negative Bacteria by Regine Hengge | | 251 |
| 16 | | The General Stress Response in Alphaproteobacteria by Julia A. Vorholt | | 291 |
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