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Microbial physiology, biochemistry, and genetics allowed the formulation of concepts that turned out to be important in the study of higher organisms. In the first section, the principles of bacterial growth are given, as well as the description of the different layers that enclose the bacterial cyt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Georges N.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer Academic, [2004]
Subjects:
Microbiological chemistry.
Microorganisms > Composition.
Molecular microbiology.
Microbial genetics.
Bacteria > chemistry.
Microbiology.
Genetics, Microbial.
Molecular Biology.
Chimie microbiologique.
Micro-organismes > Composition.
Microbiologie moléculaire.
Génétique microbienne.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Bacterial growth
  • The lag phase
  • The exponential phase
  • Linear growth
  • The yield of growth
  • Variation of the growth rate at limiting carbon source concentrations
  • Continuous growth. The chemostat
  • Advantages of the continuous exponential culture
  • Diauxic growth
  • The outer membrane of Gramnegative bacteria and the cytoplasmic membrane
  • The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria
  • The cytoplasmic membrane
  • Energy generation
  • Subunit composition of the ATP synthase
  • Peptidoglycan synthesis
  • General structure
  • Assembly of the peptidoglycan unit
  • The membrane steps
  • Assembly of the murein sacculus
  • Penicillin sensitivity
  • Cellular permeability
  • Accumulation, crypticity, and selective permeability
  • [beta]-galactoside permease
  • Periplasmic binding proteins and ATP binding cassettes
  • Phosphotransferases. The PTS system
  • A few well-identified cases of specific cellular permeability
  • Porins
  • Iron uptake
  • Allosteric enzymes
  • Allosteric inhibition and activation
  • Polymeric nature of allosteric enzymes. The model of Monod, Wyman and Changeux
  • An alternative model
  • Glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and glycogen synthesis
  • Glycogen degradation
  • Glycolysis
  • Regulation of phosphofructokinase in bacteria
  • Gluconeogenesis
  • Fructose bisphosphatase in microorganisms
  • Glycogen synthesis
  • Control of glycogen biosynthesis
  • Branching enzyme
  • The pentose phosphate and Entner-Doudoroff pathways
  • The pentose phosphate pathway
  • The enzymes of the oxidative phase.