Advances in Microbial Physiology
Academic Press
Published on 15. November 1979
375 pages
978-0-08-057979-5 (ISBN)
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Advances in Microbial Physiology
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A. H. Rose | John Gareth Morris
Advances in Microbial Physiology: v. 19
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01/1979
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- Front Cover
- Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 19
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Biogenesis of the Wall in Bacterial Morphogenesis
- I. Introduction
- II. Shape maintenance
- III. The physical properties of walls
- IV. Shape determination
- V. Autolytic enzyme function and cell-cell interaction
- VI. Morphological mutants and shape changes in bacteria
- VII. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2. Spermine Spermidine and Putrescine in Fungal Development
- I. Introduction
- II. Oligoamines in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
- III. Oligoamines in fungi
- IV. Omithine arginine and methionine metabolism in relation to oligoamine metabolism in fungi
- V. Oligoamines and fungal development
- VI. Possible functions of oligoamines
- VII. Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 3. Physiology of Thermophilic Bacteria
- I. Introduction
- II. General comments about thermophilic micro-organisms
- III. Description and properties of some thermophiles
- IV. Properties of macromolecules and structures in thermophiles
- V. Metabolism and enzymes of thermophilic, aerobic micro-organisms
- VI. Metabolism in Clostridium thermoaceticum
- VII. Thermoadaption, maximum and minimum temperatures, and genetic transfer of thermophilicity
- VIII. Conclusions
- IX. Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 4. Bacterial Transformation
- I. Introduction
- II. Competence
- III. Intracellular fate of transforming DNA
- IV. Fate of transforming chromosomal DNA in Escherichia coli
- V. Heterospecific transformation
- VI. Merodiploidy in transformation
- VII. Concluding remarks
- VIII. Acknowledgements
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
