Microbial Fundamentals of Biotechnology
Published on 28. January 2005
Software
Other digital
377 pages
978-3-527-60272-8 (ISBN)
Description
The book reports research results from different disciplines. Topics include isolation and structure determination of new antibiotics and other biologically active secondary metabolites, biosynthesis of antibiotics in particular lantibiotics, nikkomycins and glycosyl antibiotics, mode of action of bacterial protein toxins, import and export of proteins, active transport and regulation of iron, the enzymology of murein biogenesis and morphogenesis, mode of action and biosynthesis of hopanoids, and second messenger systems of Paramecium. The book gives answers to questions: how to use the biosynthetic abilities of micro-organisms to produce new biologically active compounds, how to synthesize (microbiologically or chemically) new structures, and how to test their biological activities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Weinheim
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-527-60272-8 (9783527602728)
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Content
ANTIBIOTICS AND OTHER BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MICROBIAL METABOLITES.Introduction (V. Braun and F. Gotz)Screening for New Secondary Metabolites From Microorganisms (H. Fiedler and H. Zahner).Biosynthesis of the Lantibiotics Epidermin and Gallidermin (F. Gotz and G. Jung).Fermentation of the Lantibiotics Epidermin and Gallidermin (U. Theobald).Genetics of Nikkomycin Production in Steptomyces tendae Tu901 (C. Bormann).Glycosylated Antibiotics: Studies on Genes Involved in Deoxysugar Formation, Modification and Attachment, and Their Use in Combinatorial Biosynthesis (A. Bechthold).Analysis of the Biosynthesis of Glycopeptide Antibiotics: Basis for Creating new Structures by Combinatorial Biosynthesis (S. Pelzer and W. Wohlleben).Homologous Recombination and the Induction of the SOS-Response in Antibiotic Producing Streptomycetes (G. Muth and W. Wohlleben).MEMBRANE PROCESSES.Regulated Transport and Signal Transfer Channels Involved in Bacterial Iron Supply (V. Braun and H. Killmann).Iron Transport in Gram-negative and Gram-positive Bacteria (K. Hantke).Regulation of the Ferric-Citrate Transport System by a Novel Transmembrane Transcription Control (V. Braun and S. Enz).Structure, Function, Import, and Immunity of Colcins (V. Braun aand H. Pilsl).Structure, Activity, Activation, and Secrection of the Serratia marcescens Hemolysin/Cytotoxin (V. Braun and R. Hertle).Staphylococcal Lipases: Molecular Characterization and Use as an Expression and Secretion System (F. Gotz and R. Rosenstein).A Multienzyme Complex Involved in Murein Synthesis of Escherichia coli (M. von Rechenberg, et al.).The Changing Path of Hopanoid Research: From Condensing Lipids to new Membrane Enzymes (K. Poralla).Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of the Biosynthesis of the Orange Carotenoid Staphyloxanthin of Staphylococcus aureus (F. Gotz).Second Messenger System in Paramecium (J. Schultz and J. Linder).CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION.Structure Elucidation and Chemical Synthesis of Microbial Metabolites (R. Subetamuth, et al.).DOCUMENTATION.Documentation of the collaborative research centre 323.