Strict and Facultative Anaerobes: Medical and Environmental Aspects
Publisher: Horizon Bioscience
Editor: Michiko M. Nakano and Peter Zuber
Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006 8921, USA
Publication date: August 2004
ISBN-10: 0-8493-3317-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8493-3317-0
Pages: x + 392
This book brings together expert international authors who critically review all aspects of the anaerobic life of microbes highlighting their environmental and medical importance. The first three chapters serve as an introduction that focuses on taxonomy, anaerobic metabolism and genetic regulation of anaerobic processes in strict and facultative anaerobes. Subsequent chapters examine the remarkable physiological traits of anaerobic bacteria that enable the bacteria to be beneficial in one situation but hazardous to human and animal health in others. Other topics include the anaerobic nature of infections, latency, anaerobic biofilms and toxin production. Authors discuss the use of Clostridia as a therapeutic agent to combat cancer. The environmental/industrial section reviews in detail topical areas including iron, selenate, and arsenate reduction, oxidation of halogenated organics, ammonium oxidation, and acetogenesis. The application of these anaerobic processes to bioremediation and wastewater treatment is of great environmental and industrial importance. Also discussed are processes associated with the formation of industrially important "organellar" cellulolytic enzyme complexes and organic solvent production by fermentation. This major new book provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging capabilities of anaerobic bacteria, their basic biology and chemistry, their medical importance, and in particular their applications in biotechnology and environmental science. Essential reading for everyone with an interest in anaerobic bacteria, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology and industrial bacteriology.
Key Features:
* Detailed Discussions of Cutting Edge Topics
* Expert
International Authors
* Fully Up-To-Date
* Broad Coverage
* Useful Index
Reviews:
"This book is a good candidate for library purchase as it will raise awareness of the importance of how anaerobic conditions alter and widen the capabilities of bacteria." from Microbiology Today (2005) August issue.
Chapter List:
Chapter 1: The Phylogeny and Classification
of Anaerobic Bacteria
Erko Stackebrandt
Chapter 2: An Overview of Anaerobic
Metabolism
Michael J. McInerney and Lisa M. Gieg
Chapter 3: Redox (Oxygen)-Dependent Gene
Regulation in Facultative Anaerobes
R. Gary Sawers and Michiko M. Nakano
Chapter 4: Anaerobic Metabolism by
Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cystic Fibrosis Airway Biofilms: Role of
Nitric Oxide, Quorum Sensing, and Alginate Production
Daniel J. Hassett, Sergei V. Lymar, John J.
Rowe, Michael J. Schurr, Luciano Passador, Andrew B. Herr, Geoffrey
L. Winsor, Fiona S. L. Brinkman, Sang Sun Yoon, Gee W. Lau, and Sung
Hei Hwang
Chapter 5: Oral Microbial Communities
Genetic Analysis of Oral Biofilms
Howard K. Kuramitsu
Chapter 6: The Gut Microflora
Rodrigo Bibiloni, Jens Walter and Gerald W. Tannock
Chapter 7: The Bacillus Holds its Breath -
Latency and the Hypoxic Response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
David R. Sherman and David M. Roberts
Chapter 8: Molecular Basis For Aerotolerance of the Obligately Anaerobic Bacteroides Spp.
Anthony D. Baughn and Michael H. Malamy
Chapter 9: Clostridial and
Bacteroides Toxins Structure and Mode of Action
Michel R. Popoff
Chapter 10: Toxin Gene Regulation in
Clostridium
Michiko M. Nakano, Peter Zuber, and Abraham L. Sonenshein
Chapter 11: Use of Anaerobic Bacteria for
Cancer Therapy
J. Martin Brown, and Shie-chau Liu
Chapter 12: Bioremediation Processes Coupled
to the Microbial Reduction of Fe(III)Oxides in Sedimentary
Environments
Robert T. Anderson
Chapter 13: Prokaryotic Arsenate and
Selenate Respiration
Joanne M. Santini1 and John F. Stolz
Chapter 14: Molecular and Cellular Biology
of Acetogenic Bacteria
Volker Müller, Frank Imkamp, Andreas Rauwolf, Kirsten
Küsel, and Harold L. Drake
Chapter 15: Anaerobic Oxidation of Inorganic
Nitrogen Compounds
Ingo Schmidt and Mike S. M. Jetten
Chapter 16: Reductive Dehalogenation of
Polychlorinated Benzenes and Dioxins
Lorenz Adrian and Ute Lechner
Chapter 17: Biotransformation of Carbon
Tetrachloride by Facultative Anaerobic Bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri
Andrzej Paszczynski, Jonathan Sebat, Daniel Erwin, and Ronald L. Crawford,
Chapter 18: Solventogenesis by
Clostridia
Peter Dürre
Chapter 19: The Clostridial Cellulosome
Anne Belaich, Chantal Tardif, Henri-Pierre Fierobe, Sandrine
Pagès, and Jean-Pierre Belaich
Chapter 20: Microbial Community Structure
and Functions in Methane Fermentation Technology for Wastewater
Treatment
Yuji Sekiguchi and Yoichi Kamagata
(EAN: 9780849333170)
