Trends in the Biology of Fermentations for Fuels and Chemicals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Welcoming Remarks

   • Alexander Hollaender

   Pages 1-1

3. Basic Biology of Microbial Fermentation

   • Willis A. Wood

   Pages 3-17

4. Cellulases of Fungi

   • Karl-Erik Eriksson

   Pages 19-32

5. Regulatory Controls in Relation to Overproduction of Fungal Cellulases

   • B. S. Montenecourt, S. D. Nhlapo, H. Trimiño-Vazquez, S. Cuskey, D. H. J. Schamhart, D. E. Eveleigh

   Pages 33-53

6. Cellulase Kinetics

   • Michael R. Ladisch, Juan Hong, Marcio Voloch, George T. Tsao

   Pages 55-83

7. Microbial Enzymes Attacking Plant Polymeric Materials

   • Mary Mandels

   Pages 85-88

8. Cellulases: Diversity Amongst Improved Trichoderma Strains

   • S. P. Shoemaker, J. C. Raymond, R. Bruner

   Pages 89-109

9. Xylanases: Structure and Function

   • Peter J. Reilly

   Pages 111-129

10. Toward Elucidating the Mechanism of Action of the Ligninolytic Systems in Basidiomycetes

    • T. Kent Kirk

    Pages 131-149

11. Amylases: Enzymatic Mechanisms

    • Dexter French

    Pages 151-182

12. Fermentation of Plant Polysaccharides: Role of Biochemical Genetics

    • Robert W. Detroy

    Pages 183-185

13. Molecular Genetics and Microbial Fermentations

    • David A. Jackson

    Pages 187-200

14. The Biochemical Genetics of Glycolysis in Microbes

    • Dan G. Fraenkel

    Pages 201-215

15. Mechanisms of Yeast Genetics

    • Helen Greer

    Pages 217-242

16. Perspectives for Genetic Engineering of Hydrocarbon Oxidizing Bacteria

    • J. A. Shapiro, A. Charbit, S. Benson, M. Caruso, R. Laux, R. Meyer et al.

    Pages 243-272

17. Hydrogen Formation by the Biophotolysis of Water Via Glycolate and Formate

    • Lester O. Krampitz

    Pages 273-277

18. Hydrogenase Genes

    • R. C. Tait, K. Andersen, G. Cangelosi, K. T. Shanmugam

    Pages 279-303

19. Conversion of Reductases to Dehydrogenases by Regulatory Mutations

    • Edmund C. C. Lin

    Pages 305-313

20. cAMP and Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism

    • James L. Botsford

    Pages 315-334

The growing concern about where energy rich chemicals for the future will come from has stimulated a resurgence of interest in the potentialities of microbial fermentations to assist in meeting anti­ cipated demands for fuels and chemicals. While much attention has been given recently to the early deployment of alcohol production plants and similar currently available technologies, the potential future developments have received much less attention. One of the intentions of the present symposium was to look ahead and try to perceive some of the prospects for future fermentation technology. In order to accomplish this, a symposium program of sizable diversity was developed with workers giving a representative cross section of their particular specialty as an indicator of the status of basic information in their area. In addition, an attempt was made to elicit from the various participants the types of fundamental infor­ mation which should be generated in the coming years to enable new fermentation technology to proceed expeditiously. In organizing the symposium particular effort was made to involve workers from the academic, industrial and governmental scientific communities.

• alcohol
• attention
• biology
• development
• energy
• fungi
• genetics
• microbes
• molecular genetics
• production
• yeast

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