Cellular Ecophysiology of Microbe: Hydrocarbon and Lipid Interactions

ISBN-13: 9783319505404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 599 str.

Tino Krell

Opis

This book assembles concisely written chapters by world-leaders in the field summarizing recent advances in understanding microbial responses to hydrocarbons. Subjects treated include mechanisms of sensing, hydrocarbon tolerance and degradation as well as an overview on hydrophobic modification of biomolecules. Other chapters are dedicated to issues related to the reduced bioavailability of hydrocarbons, which differentiates this class of compounds form many others, but which of central importance to understand the ecophysiological consequences.
This book should be standard literature in any laboratory working in this area.

Spis treści

Preface to Volume

Bioinformatic, Molecular and Genetic Tools for Exploring Genome-wide Responses to Hydrocarbons

Genomic response of Pseudomonas putida to toluene

1. PROBLEMS OF HYDROPHOBICITY, BIOAVAILABILITY  

Problems of Hydrophobicity/Bioavailability: An Introduction

Water-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions with the Microbial Cell

Matrix-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions

Microorganism-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions

Biofilm Development at Interfaces between Hydrophobic Organic Compounds and Water...expand

Production and Roles of Biosurfactants and Bioemulsifiers in Accessing Hydrophobic Substrates

Uptake and Assimilation of Hydrophobic Substrates by the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

2. SENSING, SIGNALING AND UPTAKE

Sensing, Signalizing and Uptake: An Introduction

Chemotaxis to hydrocarbons

The potential of hydrocarbon Chemotaxis to increase bioavailability and biodegradation efficiency 

Transcriptional regulation of hydrocarbon efflux pump expression 

Hydrocarbon responsive one-component systems to regulate degradation pathway expression 

The family of hydrocarbon responsive two-component systems to regulate degradation pathway expression 

Fatty acids as mediators of intercellular signalling 

Amphiphilic lipids, signaling molecules and quorum sensing

Lipids as signalling molecules in eukaryotes

Substrate Transport

Strategies to increase bioavailability and uptake of hydrocarbons 

Fungi as Transport Vectors for Contaminants and Contaminant-Degrading Bacteria..r...expand

3. PROBLEMS OF SOLVENTOGENICITY, SOLVENT TOLERANCE  

Problems of Solventogenicity and solvent Tolerance: An Introduction

Toxicity of Hydrocarbons to Microorganisms

Genetics of Accessing and Exploiting Hydrocarbons

Extrusion Pumps for Hydrocarbons: An Efficient Evolutionary Strategy to Confer Resistance to Hydrocarbons

Membrane Composition and Modifications in Response to Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Gram Negative Bacteria

Cis-Trans Isomerase of Unsaturated Fatty Acids: An Immediate Bacterial Adaptive Mechanism to Cope with Emerging Membrane Perturbation Caused by Toxic Hydrocarbons

Surface Properties and Cellular Energetics of Bacteria in Response to the Presence of Hydrocarbons

Ultrastructural insights into microbial life at the hydrocarbon:aqueous environment interface

Membrane adaptations to low water two-phase bioprocess systems

Microbiology of Oil Fly Larvae

4. PROBLEMS OF FEAST OR FAMINE 

Problems of Feast or Famine: An Introduction

Kinetics and Physiology at Vanishingly Small Substrate Concentrations

Feast: Choking on Acetyl-CoA, the Glyoxylate Shunt, and Acetyl-CoA-Driven Metabolism

Nitrogen Fixation and Hydrocarbon-Oxidizing Bacteria (ask Julia to extend to P and Fe acquisition)

Adaptation to varying substrate concentrations and mixtures

5.  HYDROPHOBIC MODIFICATIONS OF BIOMOLECULES 

Hydrophobic Modifications of Biomolecules: An Introduction

Protein lipidation in prokaryotes: biochemistry and function

Bacterial signal transduction processes based on acetylation

Protein lipidation in eukaryotes: biochemistry and function

Lipidation of other biomolecules and functions

Biochemistry of methylation of DNA 

DNA Methylation in prokaryotes: regulation and function

DNA Methylation in eukaryotes: regulation and function

Protein methylation in bacteria 

Causes and biochemistry of DNA damage by alkylation

Mutagenic consequences of alkylation

Protein alkylation

O autorze

Tino Krell has studied Biochemistry in Leipzig (Germany) and did his PhD at the University of Glasgow (UK). He was then appointed laboratory head in the R & D Department of Sanofi Pasteur, S.A. in France. In 2004 he moved to Spain to work for the governmental research body CSIC, where he established a laboratory on bacterial sensing and signal transduction. He has investigated molecular mechanisms by which hydrocarbons are sensed by bacteria in the context of their expulsion, degradation or chemotaxis.