Overview
- An up-to-date and comprehensive review of the inclusion bodies of prokaryotes
- Discusses the most prominent inclusion examples such as sulfur globules, gas vesicles, and lipid bodies
- Highlights relation of this research to new potential use of biopolymers
Part of the book series: Microbiology Monographs (MICROMONO, volume 34)
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The authors of this contributed volume define various inclusions and supramolecular structures in prokaryotes as discrete bodies. Research on the biosynthesis, reutilization and physiological functions of the accumulated structures is still in progress, while the interest in these inclusions is still growing. Within this second edition, the new editor organized updates to the most important contributions of the original volume.
The chapters discuss the most prominent inclusion examples such as gas vesicles, inorganic inclusions (sulfur globules, magnetosomes, polyphosphatosomes), carbon-based inclusions (lipid bodies, carbonosomes, granulose, cyanophycin) as well as other organelle-like microcompartments (carboxysomes, anammoxosomes), thus making this volume a fascinating read for scientists with a keen interest in microbiology.
The chapters discuss the most prominent inclusion examples such as gas vesicles, inorganic inclusions (sulfur globules, magnetosomes, polyphosphatosomes), carbon-based inclusions (lipid bodies, carbonosomes, granulose, cyanophycin) as well as other organelle-like microcompartments (carboxysomes, anammoxosomes), thus making this volume a fascinating read for scientists with a keen interest in microbiology.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dieter Jendrossek studied microbiology at the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany in the department of Hans-Günter Schlegel. Since 1999 he is a Professor for Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University Stuttgart, Germany. His main interests lie in the elucidation of the metabolism of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) granules (carbonosomes), polyphosphate granules (polyphosphatosomes) and in the biochemistry of polyisoprene-cleaving enzymes (rubber oxygenases) in prokaryotes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bacterial Organelles and Organelle-like Inclusions
Editors: Dieter Jendrossek
Series Title: Microbiology Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60173-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60172-0Published: 05 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60175-1Published: 06 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60173-7Published: 04 January 2021
Series ISSN: 1862-5576
Series E-ISSN: 1862-5584
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: VII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Bacteriology, Lipidology, Proteomics