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Cellular Ecophysiology of Microbe: Hydrocarbon and Lipid Interactions

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Tino Krell

    1. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Granada, Spain

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  • The 2nd ed. of the Handbook is an essential reference to a topic of great current concern and interest Five-volume reference offers exhaustive coverage
  • The definitive resource of current knowledge on the diverse and multifaceted aspects of hydrocarbon and lipid microbiology

Part of the book series: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology (HHLM)

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Table of contents (35 entries)

  1. Amphiphilic Lipids, Signaling Molecules, and Quorum Sensing

    • M. Dow, L. M. Naughton

  2. Assimilation of Hydrocarbons and Lipids by Means of Biofilm Formation

    • Pierre Sivadon, Régis Grimaud

  3. Biodiversity of Biosurfactants and Roles in Enhancing the (Bio)availability of Hydrophobic Substrates

    • Amedea Perfumo, Michelle Rudden, Roger Marchant, Ibrahim M. Banat

  4. Biofilm Stress Responses Associated to Aromatic Hydrocarbons

    • Laura Barrientos-Moreno, Manuel Espinosa-Urgel

  5. Bioinformatic, Molecular, and Genetic Tools for Exploring Genome-Wide Responses to Hydrocarbons

    • O. N. Reva, R. E. Pierneef, B. Tümmler

  6. Chemotaxis to Hydrocarbons

    • Rebecca E. Parales, Jayna L. Ditty

  7. Cis–Trans Isomerase of Unsaturated Fatty Acids: An Immediate Bacterial Adaptive Mechanism to Cope with Emerging Membrane Perturbation Caused by Toxic Hydrocarbons

    • H. J. Heipieper, J. Fischer, F. Meinhardt

  8. DNA Methylation in Eukaryotes: Regulation and Function

    • Hans Helmut Niller, Anett Demcsák, Janos Minarovits

  9. DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes: Regulation and Function

    • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Emanuele G. Biondi

  10. Extrusion Pumps for Hydrocarbons: An Efficient Evolutionary Strategy to Confer Resistance to Hydrocarbons

    • Matilde Fernández, Craig Daniels, Vanina García, BilgeHilal Cadirci, Ana Segura, Juan Luis Ramos et al.

  11. Fatty Acids as Mediators of Intercellular Signaling

    • Manuel Espinosa-Urgel

  12. Feast: Choking on Acetyl-CoA, the Glyoxylate Shunt, and Acetyl-CoA-Driven Metabolism

    • M. Peña Mattozzi, Yisheng Kang, Jay D. Keasling

  13. Genetics of Sensing, Accessing, and Exploiting Hydrocarbons

    • Miguel A. Matilla, Craig Daniels, Teresa del Castillo, Andreas Busch, Jesús Lacal, Ana Segura et al.

  14. Hydrophobic Modifications of Biomolecules: An Introduction

    • Álvaro Ortega

  15. Kinetics and Physiology at Vanishingly Small Substrate Concentrations

    • D. K. Button

  16. Matrix:Hydrophobic Compound Interactions

    • Hauke Harms, Lukas Y. Wick, Kilian E. C. Smith

  17. Membrane Composition and Modifications in Response to Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Gram-Negative Bacteria

    • Alvaro Ortega, Ana Segura, Patricia Bernal, Cecilia Pini, Craig Daniels, Juan-Luis Ramos et al.

  18. Methylation of Proteins: Biochemistry and Functional Consequences

    • Álvaro Ortega

  19. Microbiology of Oil Fly Larvae

    • K. W. Nickerson, B. Plantz

  20. Microorganism-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions

    • Lukas Y. Wick, Hauke Harms, Kilian E.C. Smith
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About this book

"Water is life!" All active cellular systems require water as the medium and solvent of their metabolic activities. Hydrophobic compounds and structures, which tend to exclude water, though providing inter alia excellent sources of energy and a means of biological compartmentalization, present problems of cellular handling, poor bioavailability and, in some cases, toxicity. Microbes both synthesize and exploit a vast range of hydrophobic organics, especially petroleum oil hydrocarbons and industrial pollutants, and the underlying interactions not only have major consequences for the lifestyles of the microbes involved, but also for biogeochemistry, climate change, environmental pollution, human health and a range of biotechnological applications. The aim of this handbook is to be the definitive resource of current knowledge on the diverse and multifaceted aspects of these interactions, the microbial players, and the physiological mechanisms and adaptive strategies characteristic of themicrobial lifestyle that plays out at hydrophobic material: aqueous liquid interfaces.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Granada, Spain

    Tino Krell

About the editor

Tino Krell has studied Biochemistry in Leipzig (Germany) and did his PhD at the University of Glasgow (UK). He was then appointed laboratory head in the R & D Department of Sanofi Pasteur, S.A. in France. In 2004 he moved to Spain to work for the governmental research body CSIC, where he established a laboratory on bacterial sensing and signal transduction. He has investigated molecular mechanisms by which hydrocarbons are sensed by bacteria in the context of their expulsion, degradation or chemotaxis. 

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