Bacterial Physiology and Biochemistry provides the most current, authoritative, and relevant presentation of bacterial physiology and biochemistry on subject, chemical composition and functional bacterial cell structure, nutrition and growth, the process of cell differentiation, metabolism and the influence of environmental factors. The book helps the reader learn and obtain modern knowledges on bacterial physiology and biochemistry, including chemical composition and functional cell structures, bacterial nutrition and growth, and the processes of cell differentiation, bacterial metabolism and microbial growth in nature, and the effect of environmental factors on bacterial cells.
This book is an educational resource designed for use in advanced bachelor's and master's courses in biology, including microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. It contains curriculum taught to biology students specializing in microbiology.
Author(s): Ivan Kushkevych
Series: Progress in Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 380
City: London
Front cover
Progress in Biochemistry and Biotechnology: BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Foreword
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION INTO BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
1.1. Subject of study
1.2. Bacteria in the phylogeny of living organisms and diversity of cell shapes
1.3. Bacterial evolution
1.4. Methods of studies of bacterial properties
CHAPTER 2 BACTERIAL CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONAL CELL STRUCTURES
2.1. Elemental composition
2.2. Compounds composition
2.3. Bacterial nucleus
2.4. Cytoplasm
2.5. Plasma membrane
2.6. Cell wall
2.7. Flagella, pilus, and fimbria
2.8. Bacterial capsule
2.9. Endospores
2.10. Pigments
CHAPTER 3 BACTERIAL NUTRITION AND GROWTH
3.1. Basic sources of nutrition
3.2. Sources of carbon
3.3. Sources of nitrogen
3.4. Mineral nutrition
3.5. Growth factors
3.6. Sources of energy
3.7. Transport of compounds across the plasma membrane
3.8. Passive transport
3.9. Active transport
3.10. Transport of iron and its regulation
3.11. Transport of proteins
3.12. Group translocation
3.13. Bacterial growth and multiplication
3.14. Multiplication of microorganisms under conditions of continuous (dynamic) cultivation
3.15. Synchronous multiplication
3.16. Bacterial cell cycle
CHAPTER 4 PROCESSES OF CELL DIFFERENTIATION
4.1. Characteristics of differentiation processes
4.2. Polar differentiation in species of Caulobacter genus
4.3. Differentiation of photosynthetic membranes in facultative phototrophic bacteria
4.4. Formation of heterocysts in cyanobacteria under bound nitrogen deficiency
CHAPTER 5 BACTERIAL METABOLISM
5.1. Energy of biochemical reactions
5.2. Carriers of hydrogen
5.3. Role of ATP and its formation in bacterial cells
5.4. Types of phosphorylation
5.5. Processes of catabolism
5.6. Processes of anabolism (biosynthesis)
5.7. Regulation of metabolism process
5.8. Metabolism of phototrophic bacteria
CHAPTER 6 GROWTH OF MICROORGANISMS IN NATURE
6.1. Microorganisms as part of the ecosystem
6.2. Physiological role of microorganisms in ecosystems
6.3. Intercellular and internal population interactions and quorum-sensing regulation of gene expression
6.4. Luminescent bacteria and bioluminescence
CHAPTER 7 EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON BACTERIAL CELLS
7.1. Effect of external factors on bacteria
7.2. Mechanisms of the effect of environmental factors
7.3. Antibiotics and their mechanisms of action
Recommended References
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