Bacterial Organelles and Organelle-like Inclusions
Editors: Jendrossek, Dieter (Ed.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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. - About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Polyphosphate Granules and Acidocalcisomes
Pages 1-17
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Bacterial Intracellular Sulphur Globules
Pages 19-51
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Biosynthesis and Intracellular Organization of Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bacteria
Pages 53-70
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Gas Vesicles of Archaea and Bacteria
Pages 71-106
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The Anammoxosome Organelle: The Power Plant of Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing (Anammox) Bacteria
Pages 107-123
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Bacterial Organelles and Organelle-like Inclusions
- Editors
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- Dieter Jendrossek
- Series Title
- Microbiology Monographs
- Series Volume
- 34
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-60173-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-60173-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-60172-0
- Series ISSN
- 1862-5576
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- VII, 275
- Number of Illustrations
- 13 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
- Topics
