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Author: Ivan Kushkevych
ISBN: 9780443187384
Published: November 2022
Imprint: Academic Press
Pages: 380

Description

Bacterial Physiology and Biochemistry provides the most current, authoritative, and relevant presentation of bacterial physiology and biochemistry on subject, chemical composition and functional bacterial cell structure, nutrition and growth, the process of cell differentiation, metabolism and the influence of environmental factors. The book helps the reader learn and obtain modern knowledges on bacterial physiology and biochemistry, including chemical composition and functional cell structures, bacterial nutrition and growth, and the processes of cell differentiation, bacterial metabolism and microbial growth in nature, and the effect of environmental factors on bacterial cells. This book is an educational resource designed for use in advanced bachelor's and master's courses in biology, including microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. It contains curriculum taught to biology students specializing in microbiology.

Key Features

Contains modern original color illustrations of biochemical and metabolic processes
Provides condensed knowledge on microbiology, microbial kinetics and microbial physiology
Includes easy-to-find information on key metabolic pathways in aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms

Readership

Microbiologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, those interested in physiology, microbial biochemistry and its applications

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1. BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
1.1. The subject of the studies
1.2. Bacteria in the phylogeny of live organisms and their diversity of cell shapes
1.3. Bacterial evolution
1.4. Methods of studies of bacterial properties

CHAPTER 2. BACTERIAL CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONAL
CELL STRUCTURES
2.1. Elemental composition
2.2. Compounds composition
2.3. Bacterial nucleus
2.4. Cytoplasm
2.5. Cytoplasmic membrane
2.6. Cell wall
2.7. Flagella, pilus and fimbria
2.8. Bacterial capsule
2.9. Endospores
2.10. Pigments

CHAPTER 3. BACTERIAL NUTRITION AND GROWTH
3.1. Basic sources of nutrition
3.2. Sources of carbon
3.3. Sources of nitrogen
3.4. Mineral nutrition
3.5. Growth factors
3.6. Sources of energy
3.7. Transport of compounds through cytoplasmic membrane
3.8. Passive transport
3.9. Active transport
3.10. Transport of iron and its regulation
3.11. Transport of proteins
3.12. Group translocation
3.13. Bacterial growth and multiplication
3.13.1. Growth under conditions of static cultivation
3.13.2. Growth constants
3.13.3. Deviations from normal growth curve
3.14. Multiplication of microorganisms under conditions of continual (dynamic) cultivation
3.15. Synchronous multiplication
3.16. Bacterial cell cycle

CHAPTER 4. THE PROCESSES OF CELL DIFFERENTIATION
4.1. Characteristics of the differentiation processes
4.2. Polar differentiation in species of Caulobacter genus
4.3. Differentiation of photosynthetic membranes in facultative phototrophic bacteria
4.4. Formation of heterocyst in cyanobacteria under deficit of bound nitrogen

CHAPTER 5. BACTERIAL METABOLISM
5.1. Energy of biochemical reactions
5.2. Carriers of hydrogen
5.3. The role of ATP and its formation in the bacterial cells
5.4. Types of phosphorylation
5.5. Processes of catabolism
5.5.1. Catabolism of carbon compounds and fermentation
5.5.1.1. Ethanol fermentation
5.5.1.2. Lactic acid fermentation
5.5.1.3. Pentose sugars fermentation
5.5.1.4. Propionic acid fermentation pathway
5.5.1.5. Butyric acid fermentation and solvent formation
5.5.1.6. Mixed acid fermentation pathway
5.5.1.7. Fermentation of sugars and polysaccharides
5.5.2. Anaerobic respiration
5.5.2.1. Nitrate reduction and denitrification
5.5.2.2. Sulfate reduction (desulfurization)
5.5.2.3. Carbon (IV) oxide reduction to methane
5.5.3. Aerobic respiration in chemolithotrophic bacteria
5.5.3.1. Oxidation of ammonia
5.5.3.2. Oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds
5.5.3.3. Oxidation of iron compounds
5.5.3.4. Oxidation of hydrogen
5.5.3.5. Oxidation of methane
5.5.4. Aerobic respiration in chemoorganotrophic bacteria
5.5.4.1. Incomplete oxidation of substrate.
5.5.4.2. Complete oxidation of substrate
5.5.4.3. Oxidation of saccharides and polysaccharides
5.5.4.4. Oxidation of lipids
5.5.4.5. Oxidation of hydrocarbons
5.5.5. Catabolism of nitrogenous compounds.
5.5.5.1. Dissimilation of proteins and amino acids
5.5.5.1.1. Anaerobic degradation (amino acid fermentation)
5.5.5.1.2. Aerobic (oxidative) catabolism of amino acids.
5.5.6. Catabolism of heterocyclic compounds
5.5.6.1. Fermentation of heterocyclic compounds
5.5.6.2. Oxidation of heterocyclic compounds
5.6. Processes of anabolism (biosynthesis)
5.6.1. Biosynthesis of saccharides
5.6.2. Biosynthesis of lipids
5.6.3. Consumption of CO2 by heterotrophic bacteria
5.6.4. Fixation of molecular nitrogen
5.6.5. Biosynthesis of amino acids
5.6.6. Biosynthesis of nucleotides
5.6.7. Biosynthesis of nucleic acids
5.6.8. Biosynthesis of proteins
5.7. Regulation of metabolism process
5.7.1. Regulation of enzymes synthesis.
5.7.2. Regulation of enzymatic activity
5.7.3. Specific of regulation mechanisms
5.7.4. Regulation of energetic metabolism
5.8. Metabolism of phototrophic bacteria
5.8.1. Photolithotrophic bacteria
5.8.2. Photoorganotrophic bacteria

CHAPTER 6. GROWTH OF MICROORGANISMS IN NATURE
6.1. Microorganisms as a part of the ecosystem
6.2. The physiological role of microorganisms in ecosystems
6.3. Intercellular and internally population interactions, the quorum-sensing regulation of gene expression
6.4. Luminescent bacteria and bioluminescence

CHAPTER 7. IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON BACTERIAL CELLS
7.1. The effect of external factors on bacteria
7.2. Mechanisms of the effect of environmental factors
7.2.1. Physical factors
7.2.2. Chemical factors
7.2.3. Chemotherapeutics
7.3. Antibiotics and mechanisms of their effect
7.3.1. Antibiotics inhibiting cell wall synthesis
7.3.2. Antibiotics disturbing the function of the cytoplasmic membrane
7.3.3. Antibiotics disturbing the metabolism of nucleic acids
7.3.4. Antibiotics disturbing proteins synthesis
7.3.5. Antibiotics effecting phosphorylation process

About the Author

Ivan Kushkevych

Ivan Kushkevych is a microbiologist who got his Ph.D. degree in Microbiology in 2010. His PhD thesis was entitled: “Influence of heavy metals salts on physiological and biochemical characteristics of the sulfur cycle bacteria”. He also has received a Degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences (Dr.Sc.) in Microbiology (2016). He obtained a second Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology in 2021. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled: Testing the cytotoxicity and biological effects of salicylamide derivatives against intestinal sulfate-reducing bacteria”. Dr. Kushkevych did several research internships at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Institute Pharmacological Research Mario Negri (2013, Milan, Italy), and other research laboratories at University of Valencia (2018), University of Barcelona, Spain (2020, 2021, 2022), University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland (2021). Dr. Kushkevych’s research focuses on the physiological and biochemical features of sulfate-reducing microorganisms and their functional role in the development of bowel diseases in both humans and animals. He is a single author of the book entitled: “Intestinal Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria” (2017), and the author in several chapters of other books, among them: “Sulfate Source and Its Role in the Development of Colitis” of the book: “Colitis: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment”, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, New York, United States (2019); “Isolation and Purification of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria” of the book: Microorganisms, IntechOpen, London, United Kingdom (2019); “Effect of intestinal microbiome, antibiotics, and probiotics in the prevention and management of ulcerative colitis” of the book: “Probiotics in the Prevention and Management of Human Diseases: A Scientific Perspective”, Elsevier Academic Press (2022). The author worked previously at the Department of Human Pharmacology and Toxicology at University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Brno, Czech Republic) and currently works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental Biology (Section of Microbiology), Faculty of Science at Masaryk University. He teaches: General Microbiology, Bacterial Physiology and Biochemistry, Cytology and Morphology of Bacteria.