A comprehensive treatment of the interactions of metals with bacteria, a subject of interest in medicine, toxicology, extraction of metals, mineral cycling and microbiology, is provided in this book. It outlines the diversity of these interactions, their importance to bacteria and humans, and the global scale of the reaction products. Topics include the use of microbes to immobilize toxic heavy metals, natural biological metal chelators, metalloenzymes, heavy metal resistance mechanisms, biomineralization, the influence of metals on bacterial virulence, and the impact of the biosphere of mineral production and cycling. The text will be of benefit to academic and industrial microbiologists, researchers in mining and metal industries, environmentalists, geologists, toxicologists and biogeochemists.
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Metal Ions and Bacteria (T. Beveridge). Factors Affecting the Toxicity of Heavy Metals to Microbes (Y. Collins & G. Stotzky). Inorganic Ion Gradients in Methanogenic Archaebacteria: A Comparative Analysis to Other Prokaryotes (G. Sprott). Bacterial Resistance to Toxic Heavy Metals (S. Silver, et al.). Siderophore Systems of Bacteria and Fungi (J. Neilands). Transition Metal Enzymes in Bacterial Metabolism (L. Wackett, et al.). Importance of Iron in Bacterial Virulence (C. Cox). Minerals and Bacterial Spores (R. Marquis). How Cell Walls of Gram-Positive Bacteria Interact with Metal Ions (R. Doyle). Metallic Ion Interactions with the Outer Membrane of Gram-Negative Bacteria (F. Ferris). Interactions Between Metal Ions and Capsular Polymers (G. Geesey & L. Jang). Applied Microbial Processes for Metals Recovery and Removal from Wastewater (C. Brierley, et al.). Mechanisms of Oxidation and Reduction of Manganese (K. Nealson, et al.). Mineral Formation and Decomposition by Microorganisms (F. Ferris, et al.). Index.
