Advances in microbial physiology

Advances in Microbial Physiology is one of the most successful and prestigious series from Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier. It publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting physiology to include all material that contributes to our understanding of how microorganisms and their component parts work. First published in 1967, it is now in its 56th volume. The Editors have always striven to interpret microbial physiology in the broadest context and have never restricted the contents to traditional views of whole cell physiology. Now edited by Professor Robert Poole, U.

Front cover; Advances in Microbial Physiology; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors to Volume 54; Chapter 1. Complex Regulatory Pathways Coordinate Cell-Cycle Progression and Development in Caulobacter crescentus; 1. Introduction; 2. Global regulation; 3. Polar structure biogenesis and function; 4. Chromosome replication and segregation, cell division, and cell shape; 5. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2. Sulfur Metabolism in Phototrophic Sulfur Bacteria; 1. Introduction; 2. Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria: physiology and taxonomy.

3. Anoxygenic phototrophic sulfur bacteria: ecology4. Transformations of sulfur compounds; 5. Oxidative sulfur metabolism: enzymes and genes; 6. Evolution of sulfur metabolism; 7. Sulfate assimilation in anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria; 8. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3. Carbon, Iron and Sulfur Metabolism in Acidophilic Micro-Organisms; 1. Acidophilic micro-organisms: overview; 2. Carbon metabolism in acidophilic micro-organisms; 3. Iron metabolism by acidophilic micro-organisms; 4. Sulfur metabolism by acidophilic micro-organisms; 5. Applied and ecological aspects.

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