The Prokaryotes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Applied Bacteriology and Biotechnology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Organic Acid and Solvent Production: Acetic, Lactic, Gluconic, Succinic, and Polyhydroxyalkanoic Acids

      • Palmer Rogers∗, Jiann-Shin Chen, Mary Jo Zidwick

      Pages 3-75

   3. Organic Acid and Solvent Production: Butanol, Acetone, and Isopropanol; 1,3- and 1,2-Propanediol Production; and 2,3-Butanediol Production

      • Jiann-Shin Chen, Mary Jo Zidwick, Palmer Rogers∗

      Pages 77-134

   4. Organic Acid and Solvent Production: Propionic and Butyric Acids and Ethanol

      • Mary Jo Zidwick, Jiann-Shin Chen, Palmer Rogers∗

      Pages 135-167

   5. Amino Acid Production

      • Hidehiko Kumagai

      Pages 169-177

   6. Microbial Exopolysaccharides

      • Avinash Mishra, Bhavanath Jha

      Pages 179-192

   7. Bacterial Enzymes

      • Wim J. Quax

      Pages 193-211

   8. Diversity and Biotechnological Applications of Prokaryotic Enzymes

      • Alane Beatriz Vermelho, Eliane Ferreira Noronha, Edivaldo Ximenes Ferreira Filho, Maria Antonieta Ferrara, Elba Pinto S. Bon

      Pages 213-240

   9. Bacteria in Food and Beverage Production

      • Michael P. Doyle, Larry R. Steenson, Jianghong Meng

      Pages 241-256

   10. Bacterial Pharmaceutical Products

       • Giancarlo Lancini, Arnold L. Demain

       Pages 257-280

   11. Biosurfactants

       • Eugene Rosenberg, Eliora Z. Ron

       Pages 281-294

   12. Bioremediation

       • Ronald L. Crawford, Eugene Rosenberg

       Pages 295-307

   13. Biodeterioration

       • Ji-Dong Gu, Ralph Mitchell

       Pages 309-341

   14. Microbial Biofilms

       • Dirk De Beer, Paul Stoodley

       Pages 343-372

   15. Biofuels

       • Stefano Freguia, Bernardino Virdis, Korneel Rabaey

       Pages 373-381

   16. The Metabolic Pathways of Biodegradation

       • Lawrence P. Wackett

       Pages 383-393

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to delineate chapters.

Different from other resources, this new Springer product includes not only taxonomy, but also prokaryotic biology and technology of taxa in a broad context. Technological aspects highlight the usefulness of prokaryotes in processes and products, including biocontrol agents and as genetics tools.

The content of the expanded fourth edition is divided into two parts: Part 1 contains review chapters dealing with the most important general concepts in molecular, applied and general prokaryote biology; Part 2 describes the known properties of specific taxonomic groups.

Two completely new sections have been added to Part 1: bacterial communities and human bacteriology. The bacterial communities section reflects the growing realization that studies on pure cultures of bacteria have led to an incomplete picture of the microbial world for two fundamental reasons: the vast majority of bacteria in soil, water and associated with biological tissues are currently not culturable, and that an understanding of microbial ecology requires knowledge on how different bacterial species interact with each other in their natural environment. The new section on human microbiology deals with bacteria associated with healthy humans and bacterial pathogenesis. Each of the major human diseases caused by bacteria is reviewed, from identifying the pathogens by classical clinical and non-culturing techniques to the biochemical mechanisms of the disease process.

The 4th edition of The Prokaryotes is the most complete resource on the biology of prokaryotes.

The following volumes are published consecutively within the 4th Edition:

Prokaryotic Biology and Symbiotic Associations

Prokaryotic Communities and Ecophysiology<

Prokaryotic Physiology and Biochemistry

Applied Bacteriology and Biotechnology

Human Microbiology

Actinobacteria

Firmicutes

Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria

Gammaproteobacteria

Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria

Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and the Archaea

• Bacteria
• Ecology
• Infectious Diseases
• Mircrobes
• Prokaryotes
• Systematic

• Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Eugene Rosenberg

• Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Edward F. DeLong

• Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

  Stephen Lory

• Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

  Erko Stackebrandt

• Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Brazil

  Fabiano Thompson

Eugene Rosenberg, Professor of Microbiology at Tel Aviv University, Israel.-  Edward F. DeLong, Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.-  Fabiano Thompson, Professor at Center of Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.-  Stephen Lory, Professor at Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.-  Erko Stackebrandt, Director of the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany.

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