Bacterial and physiology and biochemistry

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. Contains modern original color illustrations of biochemical and metabolic processes Provides condensed knowledge on microbiology, microbial kinetics and microbial physiology Includes easy-to-find information on key metabolic pathways in aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms 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 Index