Microbial Growth on C1 Compounds: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium

ISBN-13: 9789024734597 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 305 str.

H. W. Verseveld; J. a. Duine

Opis

The 5th International Symposium on Microbial Growth on C Compounds was held at the Biological 1 Center of the University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands, 11-16 August 1986. The meeting attracted well over 200 participants from 15 countries. This volume contains the formal presentations made at that time, which, because of the breadth of topics covered, were divided into seven sections of related papers. This meeting, under the chairmanship of Wim Harder, was both scientifically and socially very successful. This success cannot only be credited to the main presentations, but also to the well cared- for 121 poster presentations, whereof the abstracts have been published separately. The series of Symposia will be continued in 1989, in the Federal Republic of Germany. We wish to acknowledge the invaluable help of Joke Daniels, Roberta Stroer-Schneider, Karin Uyldert, Hansje Bartelson and Josine van Verseveld-Stroer, who retyped the manuscripts resulting in a uniform presentation of these proceedings.

Spis treści

An eightieth anniversary of the study of microbial C1 metabolism.- Physiology and Biochemistry of Autotrophic Bacteria.- Physiology and Biochemistry of Autotrophic Bacteria.- Metabolic and Molecular Regulation of the CO2-Assimilating Enzyme System in Aerobic Chemoautotrophs.- CO2 fixation in Rhodopseudomonas blastica.- Autotrophic CO2 Fixation in Chemotrophic Anaerobic Bacteria.- Aerobic and Anaerobic Extremely Thermophilic Autotrophs.- Physiology and Biochemistry of Methanogens and Fermentative C1 Utilizers.- Biochemical Aspects of Methane Formation in Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.- Intermediary Steps in Methanogenesis.- Recent Developments on the Biochemistry of Methanogenesis from Acetate.- C1-Utilizing Acetogens.- Ecology of C1-Metabolizing Anaerobes.- Physiology and Biochemistry of Methylotrophic Bacteria.- Physiology and Biochemistry of Methylotrophic Bacteria.- Metabolic Regulation in Facultative Methylotrophs.- Quinoproteins in the Dissimilation of C1 Compounds.- NMR Spectroscopy in the Study of C1-Metabolism.- Comparative Biochemistry of C1-Carriers.- Physiology, Biochemistry and Genetics of Methylotrophic Yeasts.- Methylotrophic Yeasts - 1986.- Metabolic Regulation in Methylotrophic Yeasts.- Biochemistry of Alcohol Oxidase.- Genetics of Methylotrophic Yeasts.- Protein Topogenesis in Methylotrophic Yeasts.- Energetics of C1-Metabolism.- Energetics of C1-Compound Metabolism.- Energy Metabolism in Chemolithotrophs.- Energy Metabolim of Aerobic, Methylotrophic Bacteria.- Energy Metabolism in Methanogens.- Theoretical Limits of Growth Yields and an Analysis of Experimental data.- Genetics and Molecular Biology of C1-Utilizers.- The Molecular Genetics of C1 Utilizing Microorganisms — An Overview.- Genetics of Aerobic Lithoautotrophs.- Molecular Biology and Regulation of Microbial CO2 fixation.- Molecular Biology of Methanol Oxidation.- Divergence of Methanogens, Conservation of the Hisl Gene Sequence in All Three Biological Kingdoms and the Status of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.- Applied Aspects of One-Carbon Metabolism.- The Potential of One-Carbon Compounds as Fermentation Feedstocks.- Chemical Synthesis from C1 Compounds.- Microbiological Synthesis from C1-Compounds: Application of Some Methylotrophic Functions to Synthesis of Useful Chemicals.- The Methylotrophic Yeast Pichia pastoris as a Host for Heterologous Protein Production.- Authors index.