Bacterial Organelles and Organelle-like Inclusions

2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-60175-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Microbiology Monographs

The new series "Microbiology Monographs" begins with two volumes on intracellular components in prokaryotes. In this first volume, "Inclusions in Prokaryotes", the components, labeled inclusions, are defined as discrete bodies resulting from synthesis of a metabolic product. Research on the biosynthesis and reutilization of the accumulated materials is still in progress, and interest in the inclusions is growing. This comprehensive volume provides historical background and comprehensive reviews of eight well-known prokaryotic inclusions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jendrossek, Dieter

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Proteinforschung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bakteriologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Lipidologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Polyphosphate Granules and Acidocalcisomes.- Bacterial Intracellular Sulphur Globules.- Biosynthesis and Intracellular Organization of Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bacteria.- Gas Vesicles of Archaea and Bacteria.- The Anammoxosome Organelle: The Power Plant of Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing (anammox) Bacteria.- Bacterial Microcompartments.- The Cyanophycin Granule Peptide from Cyanobacteria.- Storage Polysaccharides in Prokaryotes: Glycogen, Granulose and Starch-like Granules.- Wax Ester and Triacylglycerol Inclusions.- Carbonosomes.

Über Autor(innen)

Dieter Jendrossek studied microbiology at the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany in the department of Hans-Günter Schlegel. Since 1999 he is a Professor for Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University Stuttgart, Germany. His main interests lie in the elucidation of the metabolism of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) granules (carbonosomes), polyphosphate granules (polyphosphatosomes) and in the biochemistry of polyisoprene-cleaving enzymes (rubber oxygenases) in prokaryotes.