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Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 77, the latest release in this ongoing series, continues the long tradition of topical, important, cutting-edge reviews in microbiology. The updated release contains updates in the field, with comprehensive chapters covering Microbubble Intensification of Bioprocessing, Bacterial cellulose: biosynthesis, production, and applications, Microbial energy management - a product of three broad tradeoffs, and more.- Contains contributions from leading authorities in microbial physiology- Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field of microbial physiology.
Intro -- Advances in Microbial Physiology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter One: Microbubble intensification of bioprocessing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fluidic oscillation generated microbubbles and physical chemical features exploitable for bioprocessing -- 2.1. Microbubble cloud generation -- 2.2. Exploiting physical chemistry of microbubbles for bio/processing -- 2.2.1. Mass transfer increase -- 2.2.2. The physical chemistry of liquid mixing -- 2.2.3. Flotation segregation chemistry of microorganisms via microbubbles
2.2.4. Microbubble distillation and evaporation operations -- 2.2.5. Microbubble interfacial reactions -- 3. Uses of microbubbles in the growth of microalgae -- 3.1. Photoautotrophic growth -- 3.2. Mixotrophic growth -- 3.3. Heterotrophic growth -- 4. Uses of microbubbles in wastewater and sewage treatment -- 4.1. Activated sludge aeration -- 4.2. Disinfection of biomass -- 4.3. Pretreatment of biomass -- 4.4. Treatment of ammonia-rich wastewaters -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter Two: Zymomonas mobilis metabolism: Novel tools and targets for its rational engineering
1. Introduction -- 2. Central carbon metabolism -- 2.1. Glycolysis -- 2.2. Pentose phosphate pathway -- 2.3. Tricarboxylic acid cycle and anaplerotic reactions -- 3. Kinetics and regulation of the E-D pathway -- 3.1. Rate of glycolysis -- 3.2. Flux control -- 3.3. In silico simulation -- 3.4. Heterologous expression of the EMP pathway -- 4. Respiration -- 4.1. Electron carriers and energy generation -- 4.2. Redox balancing -- 4.3. Stress resistance -- 4.4. Aerobic performance of respiration-deficient strains -- 5. Omic studies in aid of metabolic engineering -- 5.1. Genomic analyses
5.2. Transcriptomics and profiling -- 5.3. Proteomics and metabolomics -- 6. Methods and tools for metabolic engineering of Z. mobilis -- 6.1. Expression of heterologous genes -- 6.2. Plasmid vectors for Z. mobilis -- 6.3. Gene integration and knock out -- 7. Conclusions and perspective -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter Three: Bacterial cellulose: Biosynthesis, production, and applications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ecological niches -- 3. Biochemistry of BC -- 3.1. Machinery of BC synthesis -- 4. BC production -- 4.1. Static cultivation -- 4.2. Submerged cultivation
4.3. Culture media -- 4.4. Effect of pH and oxygen -- 4.5. Role of additives -- 4.6. Strategies for strain/process improvement -- 4.7. Downstream processing -- 5. Applications -- 5.1. Food industry -- 5.2. Biomedical applications -- 5.3. Superabsorbents -- 5.4. Bioremediation -- 6. Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- Author contributions -- References -- Chapter Four: Microbial energy management-A product of three broad tradeoffs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tradeoffs that have shaped microbial energy management -- 2.1. Economic tradeoffs: An exchange of energetic efficiency for functionality (Fig. 1A)