Molecular Microbiology

Molecular microbiology is a rapidly expanding area of contemporary science: the application of molecular biology has opened up the microbial world in many remarkable ways. The attraction of microbes is that they are self-contained and that they offer complete solutions to understanding the phenomenon of life.
This book provides a concise introduction to current research in the field. Four major areas are introduced and explained:
- Bacterial Biochemistry
- Bacterial Genomes
- Gene Expression
- Microbial Cell Biology

List of contents

1 Bacterial Biochemistry.- Life and Death in Stationary Phase.- The Citric Acid Cycle and Oxygen-Regulated Gene Expression in Escherichia coli.- 2 Genomes and their Survival.- Gene Transfer by Bacterial Conjugation: Establishment of the Immigrant Plasmid in the Recipient Cell.- Bacteriophage Mu.- Regulation of Bacteriophage ? Replication.- Replication and Maintenance of Bacterial Plasmids.- 3 Expression.- Bacterial Gene Regulatory Proteins: Organisation and Mechanism of Action.- Bacterial Two-Component Regulatory Systems.- Metal Regulation of Gene Expression in Bacterial Systems.- Regulation of Prespore-Specific Transcription During Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.- Quorum Sensing: Bacterial Cell-Cell Signalling from Bioluminescence to Pathogenicity.- Studying Protein Synthesis Factors in Yeast: Structure, Function and Regulation.- 4 Microbial Cell Biology.- The Roles of Molecular Chaperones in the Bacterial Cell.- Protein Traffic in Bacteria.- Oxygen Toxicity, Oxygen Starvation and the Assembly of Cytochrome c-Dependent Electron Transfer Chains in Escherichia coli.- Aspects of the Molecular Genetics of Antibiotics.- Interactions of the Bacterial Pathogen Listeria monocytogenes with Mammalian Cells.- The Behaviour of Bacterial Pathogens in vivo.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nigel L. Brown (Editor), Stephen J. W. Busby (Editor), Stephen J.W. Busby (Editor), Nigel L Brown (Editor), Christophe M Thomas (Editor), Christopher M Thomas (Editor), Christopher M. Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9783642720734
• ISBN: 978-3-642-72073-4
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 19 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 527 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 334 p.
• Series: NATO ASI Series H Cell Biology; Nato ASI Series (closed) / Nato ASI Subseries H: (closed); Nato ASI Subseries H: NATO ASI Series; NATO ASI Series H Cell Biology; Nato ASI Subseries H:
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries