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As with the first edition, this new edition of Living in a Microbial World is written for students taking a general microbiology course, or a microbiology-based course for non-science majors. The conversational style and use of practical, everyday examples make the essential concepts of microbiology accessible to a wide audience. While using this approach, the text maintains scientific rigor with clear explanations spanning the breadth of microbiology, including health, evolution, ecology, food production, biotechnology, and industrial processes.
Each chapter contains a series of case studies based on microbiology in the news, in history, and in literature. There are questions at the end of each case study and the end of each chapter, as well as an online quiz with help on answering the questions. The text, questions, and cases have been updated to reflect the changing influence of microbiology in the world today, from the microbiome, to new disease outbreaks (Ebola and Zika) and antibiotic resistance, to new biotechnology tools (CRISPR-Cas).
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Автор: Carlos Rosales Название: Molecular Mechanisms of Phagocytosis ISBN: 1489997636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489997630 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26120.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Although, Phagocytosis was first described nearly 120 year ago, we are just recently beginning to understand the molecules that phagocytic cells use to bring about this complex cell function.
Автор: Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal; V. L. Chopra; Patrice Di Название: Molecular Mechanisms of Plant and Microbe Coexistence ISBN: 3642094813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642094811 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 36570.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents studies on the complex and manifold interactions of plants and microbes at the population, genomics and proteomics level. Coverage includes genome coexistence and the functional genomics and proteomics of plant-associated microbes.
Автор: Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal; V. L. Chopra; Patrice Di Название: Molecular Mechanisms of Plant and Microbe Coexistence ISBN: 3540755748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540755746 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 36570.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Автор: C.I. Kado; J.H. Crosa Название: Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence ISBN: 9401043221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401043229 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22203.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The growing body of information on bacteria pathogenic for humans, mammals and plants generated within the past ten years has shown the interesting conservation of newly identified genes that playa direct role in the pathogenic mechanism.
Автор: Jure Pi?kur; Concetta Compagno Название: Molecular Mechanisms in Yeast Carbon Metabolism ISBN: 366251222X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783662512227 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduction to Carbon Metabolism in Yeast.- Glucose Sensing and Signal Transduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.- Anaerobic Carbon Metabolism of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.- Systems Biology: Developments and Applications.- Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Genetics of Yeast Carbon Metabolism.- Similarities and Differences Between Cancer and Yeast Carbohydrate Metabolism.- Carbon Metabolism in Pathogenic Yeasts (Especially Candida): The Role of Cell Wall Metabolism in Virulence.- Molecular Mechanisms in Yeast Carbon Metabolism: Lipid Metabolism and Lipidomics.- Molecular Mechanisms in Yeast Carbon Metabolism: Bioethanol and Other Biofuels.- Wine, Beer and Cider: Unravelling the Aroma Profile.- Production of Metabolites and Heterologous Proteins.
Автор: Pabulo H. Rampelotto Название: Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Evolution ISBN: 3319690779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319690773 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 30745.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
One of the most profound paradigms that have transformed our understanding about life over the last decades was the acknowledgement that microorganisms play a central role in shaping the past and present environments on Earth and the nature of all life forms. Each organism is the product of its history and all extant life traces back to common ancestors, which were microorganisms. Nowadays, microorganisms represent the vast majority of biodiversity on Earth and have survived nearly 4 billion years of evolutionary change. Microbial evolution occurred and continues to take place in a great variety of environmental conditions. However, we still know little about the processes of evolution as applied to microorganisms and microbial populations. In addition, the molecular mechanisms by which microorganisms communicate/interact with each other and with multicellular organisms remains poorly understood. Such patterns of microbe-host interaction are essential to understand the evolution of microbial symbiosis and pathogenesis.
Recent advances in DNA sequencing, high-throughput technologies, and genetic manipulation systems have enabled studies that directly characterize the molecular and genomic bases of evolution, producing data that are making us change our view of the microbial world. The notion that mutations in the coding regions of genomes are, in combination with selective forces, the main contributors to biodiversity needs to be re-examined as evidence accumulates, indicating that many non-coding regions that contain regulatory signals show a high rate of variation even among closely related organisms. Comparative analyses of an increasing number of closely related microbial genomes have yielded exciting insight into the sources of microbial genome variability with respect to gene content, gene order and evolution of genes with unknown functions. Furthermore, laboratory studies (i.e. experimental microbial evolution) are providing fundamental biological insight through direct observation of the evolution process. They not only enable testing evolutionary theory and principles, but also have applications to metabolic engineering and human health.
Overall, these studies ranging from viruses to Bacteria to microbial Eukaryotes are illuminating the mechanisms of evolution at a resolution that Darwin, Delbruck and Dobzhansky could barely have imagined. Consequently, it is timely to review and highlight the progress so far as well as discuss what remains unknown and requires future research. This book explores the current state of knowledge on the molecular mechanisms of microbial evolution with a collection of papers written by authors who are leading experts in the field.
Автор: Lech Switalski; Magnus H??k; Edwin Beachey Название: Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Adhesion ISBN: 1461281695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461281696 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14673.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It has been 80 years since the subject of bacterial adhesion to surfaces was first brought forth, but only in the last two decades has the importance of this subject been recognized by medical microbiologists.
Автор: Walsh Название: Antibiotics: Challenges, Mechanisms, Opportunities ISBN: 1555819303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781555819309 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 16466.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Antibiotics: Challenges, Mechanisms, Opportunities details the contemporary challenges for discovery, optimization, and advancement of new antibiotics. It focuses on discovery not preclinical or clinical development. Given that the few classes of clinically significant antibiotics are all small molecules, this book focuses on the molecular structures and characteristics of both natural and synthetic antibacterial agents. Antibiotics is a valuable reference for microbiologists, bacterial physiologists, geneticists, pharmacologists, and drug developers. A chemocentric view of the molecular structures of antibiotics, their origins, actions, and major categories of resistance Antibiotics: Challenges, Mechanisms, Opportunities focuses on antibiotics as small organic molecules, from both natural and synthetic sources. Understanding the chemical scaffold and functional group structures of the major classes of clinically useful antibiotics is critical to understanding how antibiotics interact selectively with bacterial targets. This textbook details how classes of antibiotics interact with five known robust bacterial targets: cell wall assembly and maintenance, membrane integrity, protein synthesis, DNA and RNA information transfer, and the folate pathway to deoxythymidylate. It also addresses the universe of bacterial resistance, from the concept of the resistome to the three major mechanisms of resistance: antibiotic destruction, antibiotic active efflux, and alteration of antibiotic targets. Antibiotics also covers the biosynthetic machinery for the major classes of natural product antibiotics. Authors Christopher Walsh and Timothy Wencewicz provide compelling answers to these questions: • What are antibiotics? • Where do antibiotics come from?• How do antibiotics work? • Why do antibiotics stop working? • How should our limited inventory of effective antibiotics be addressed? Antibiotics is a textbook for graduate courses in chemical biology, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry, and microbiology and biochemistry courses. It is also a valuable reference for microbiologists, biological and natural product chemists, pharmacologists, and research and development scientists.
Автор: Hilbi Название: Molecular Mechanisms in Legionella Pathogenesis ISBN: 3642405908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642405907 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23508.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines different facets of Legionnaires` disease, focusing on comparative phagocyte infection, virulence gene regulation, biochemical functions of effector proteins and cellular pathogen-host interactions, as well as host responses.
Автор: Jure Pi?kur; Concetta Compagno Название: Molecular Mechanisms in Yeast Carbon Metabolism ISBN: 3642550126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642550126 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Yeast is one of the most studied laboratory organisms and represents one of the most central models to understand how any eukaryote cell works. On the other hand, yeast fermentations have for millennia provided us with a variety of biotech products, like wine, beer, vitamins, and recently also with pharmaceutically active heterologous products and biofuels. A central biochemical activity in the yeast cell is the metabolism of carbon compounds, providing energy for the whole cell, and precursors for any of the final fermentation products. A complex set of genes and regulatory pathways controls the metabolism of carbon compounds, from nutrient sensing, signal transduction, transcription regulation and post-transcriptional events. Recent advances in comparative genomics and development of post-genomic tools have provided further insights into the network of genes and enzymes, and molecular mechanisms which are responsible for a balanced metabolism of carbon compounds in the yeast cell, and which could be manipulated in the laboratory to increase the yield and quality of yeast biotech products. This book provides a dozen of most comprehensive reviews on the recent developments and achievements in the field of yeast carbon metabolism, from academic studies on gene expression to biotechnology relevant topics.
Автор: Fred E. Hahn Название: Modes and Mechanisms of Microbial Growth Inhibitors ISBN: 3642689485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642689482 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Further search for antibiotics has led to increasing frequency of rediscoveries and drasti- cally decreasing frequency of discoveries of new antibiotics.
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