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Biogenesis of Fatty Acids, Lipids and Membranes

Editors:

  1. Otto Geiger

    1. Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  • Provides an extensive overview on how lipids are formed, assembled, and engaged to generate biological membranes
  • Chapters are written in an informative style, are well illustrated and interesting to read for the newcomer as well as the senior scientist in the field
  • Functional aspects of lipids, lipid residues and membranes in microbes are elaborated in detail
  • Biosynthesis pathways for the different microbial lipid classes provide a unique compendium of lipid biology in the living world
  • Readers obtain a profound understanding of lipid and membrane formation, function and remodeling
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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

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Table of contents (46 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Biochemistry of Biogenesis of Fatty Acids and Lipids

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Fatty Acids: Introduction

      • Eric R. Moellering, Victoria L. Prince, Roger C. Prince
      Pages 3-23

    4. Formation of Fatty Acids

      • Isabel M. López-Lara, Otto Geiger
      Pages 43-55

    5. Formation of Isoprenoids

      • Jordi Pérez-Gil, Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción, Claudia E. Vickers
      Pages 57-85

    6. Formation of Bacterial Glycerol-Based Membrane Lipids: Pathways, Enzymes, and Reactions

      • Otto Geiger, Christian Sohlenkamp, Isabel M. López-Lara
      Pages 87-107

    8. Bacterial Sphingolipids and Sulfonolipids

      • Otto Geiger, Jonathan Padilla-Gómez, Isabel M. López-Lara
      Pages 123-137

    9. Phenolic Lipids Synthesized by Type III Polyketide Synthases

      • Akimasa Miyanaga, Yasuo Ohnishi
      Pages 139-149

    10. Lipid A

      • Russell E. Bishop
      Pages 151-162

    11. Lipoteichoic Acid Synthesis and Function in Gram-Positive Bacteria

      • Olaf Schneewind, Dominique Missiakas
      Pages 163-180

    12. Mycolic Acids: From Chemistry to Biology

      • Mamadou Daffé, Annaïk Quémard, Hedia Marrakchi
      Pages 181-216

    13. Lipid Intermediates in Bacterial Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis

      • Hélène Barreteau, Didier Blanot, Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx, Thierry Touzé
      Pages 217-235

    14. Marinobacter as a Model Organism for Wax Ester Accumulation in Bacteria

      • Carolann M. Knutson, Eric M. Lenneman, Brett M. Barney
      Pages 237-258

    15. Vitamin Formation from Fatty Acid Precursors

      • Michael F. Dunn
      Pages 259-271

    16. Functional Roles of Non-membrane Lipids in Bacterial Signaling

      • María J. Soto, N. Calatrava-Morales, Isabel M. López-Lara
      Pages 273-289

    18. Metabolism and Regulation of Glycerolipids in Yeast

      • Vanina Zaremberg, Suriakarthiga Ganesan, Brittney N. Shabits
      Pages 315-339
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About this book

Concise chapters, written by experts in the field, cover a wide spectrum of topics on lipid and membrane formation in microbes (Archaea, Bacteria, eukaryotic microbes).All cells are delimited by a lipid membrane, which provides a crucial boundary in any known form of life. Readers will discover significant chapters on microbial lipid-carrying biomolecules and lipid/membrane-associated structures and processes.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Otto Geiger

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About the editor

Otto Geiger studied biology at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany and after investigating “Quinoproteins and their prosthetic group pyrroloquinoline quinone” at the Institute of Microbiology, he received his doctoral title from the same institution in 1987. As a Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he did postdoctoral work in the United States at Harvard Medical School with Eugene P. Kennedy on the biosynthesis and function of periplasmic glucans in Gram-negative bacteria. Subsequently, together with Ben Lugtenberg and Herman Spaink, he investigated the biosynthesis of lipochitin oligosaccharide signals that cause nodule formation on legume host plants at the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Leiden University in the Netherlands. From 1993 to 1999 he was a Research Group Leader in the Department of Biotechnology at the Technical University of Berlin, where he habilitated for Biochemistry in 1997. Otto Geiger was an InternationalResearch Scholar (2002–2006) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He currently holds the position of Professor (Investigador Titular C) at the Center for Genomic Sciences (formerly the Research Center for Nitrogen Fixation) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Cuernavaca) which he joined in 1999. Geiger’s group discovered the phosphatidylcholine synthase pathway which constitutes a major route for phosphatidylcholine (lecithin) formation in bacteria as well as the biosynthesis pathway for ornithine-containing lipids which are widespread bioactive lipids encountered in bacterial membranes. More recently, he discovered molecular mechanisms for lipid remodeling of bacterial membranes in response to different types of stress. Presently, he studies the molecular functions of phosphatidylcholine in bacteria as well as the biosynthesis, transport, and function of sphingolipids in bacteria. He functions as an Editor for the journal BMC Microbiology and for the Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology.
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