Overview
- Tracks recent progress in understanding metal-microbe interactions
- Presents a molecular systems theoretical approach as well as results that may lead to the level of real mechanistic understanding
- With contributions written by internationally renowned scientists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Microbiology Monographs (MICROMONO, volume 6)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Molecular Physiology of Metal-Microbe Interactions According to Mechanisms
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Molecular Physiology of Metal-Microbe Interactions According to Groups
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About this book
All forms of life depend on a variety of heavy metal ions. Nearly one-third of all gene products require a metal ion for proper folding or function. However, even metals generally regarded as non-poisonous are toxic at higher concentrations, including the essential ones. Thus, sensitive regulation of metal uptake, storage, allocation and detoxification is needed to maintain cellular homeostasis of heavy metal ions.
Molecular Microbiology of Heavy Metals includes chapters on allocation of metals in cells, metal transporter, storage and metalloregulatory proteins, cellular responses to metal ion stress, transcription of genes involved in metal ion homeostasis, uptake of essential metals, metal efflux and other detoxification mechanisms. Also discussed are metal bioreporters for the nanomolar range of concentration and tools to address the metallome. Chapters in the second part cover specific metals such as Fe, Mn, Cu, Ni, Co, Zn and Mo as key nutrient elements and Ag, As, Cd, Hg and Cr as toxic elements.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Microbiology of Heavy Metals
Editors: Dietrich H. Nies, Simon Silver
Series Title: Microbiology Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69771-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-69770-1Published: 30 April 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08916-9Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-69771-8Published: 24 March 2007
Series ISSN: 1862-5576
Series E-ISSN: 1862-5584
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 460
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Microbiology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Organometallic Chemistry, Bacteriology