Overview
- Provides new insights into the effects of metals on microbial growth and metabolism
- Enhances readers’ understanding of both basic research and applications
- Discusses microbial use of metals beyond iron
Part of the book series: Advances in Environmental Microbiology (AEM, volume 10)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Understanding Commonality of the Basic Processes
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When Microbes are the Best Tool for the Job
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Uniqueness of the Elements
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About this book
This book explains the metabolic processes by which microbes obtain and control the intracellular availability of their required metal and metalloid ions. The book also describes how intracellular concentrations of unwanted metal and metalloid ions successfully are limited. Its authors additionally provide information about the ways that microbes derive metabolic energy by changing the charge states of metal and metalloid ions.
Part one of this book provides an introduction to microbes, metals and metalloids. It also helps our readers to understand the chemical constraints for transition metal cation allocation.
Part two explains the basic processes which microbes use for metal transport. That section also explains the uses, as well as the challenges, associated with metal-based antimicrobials.
Part three gives our readers an understanding that because of microbial capabilities to process metals and metalloids, the microbes have become our best tools for accomplishing many jobs. Their applications in chemical technology include the design of microbial consortia for use in bioleaching processes that recover metal and metalloid ions from industrial wastes. Many biological engineering tasks, including the synthesis of metal nanoparticles and similar metalloid structures, also are ideally suited for the microbes.
Part four describes unique attributes associated with the microbiology of these elements, progressing through the alphabet from antimony and arsenic to zinc.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Valle, Colombia
e-mail: christonjhurst@fuse.netBibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbial Metabolism of Metals and Metalloids
Editors: Christon J. Hurst
Series Title: Advances in Environmental Microbiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97185-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97184-7Published: 24 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97187-8Published: 25 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97185-4Published: 24 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2366-3324
Series E-ISSN: 2366-3332
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 660
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 80 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbial Ecology, Bacteriology, Applied Microbiology, Eukaryotic Microbiology, Ecotoxicology