Research Catalog

Title

Acetogenesis / Harold L. Drake, editor.

Publication

New York : Chapman and Hall, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Drake, Harold L., 1952-

Description

xxi, 647 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Chapman & Hall microbiology series

Uniform Title

Chapman & Hall microbiology series.

Subjects

• Microbial metabolism
• Acetic acid > Metabolism
• Acetylcoenzyme A

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Acetogenesis, Acetogenic Bacteria, and the Acetyl-CoA "Wood/Ljungdahl" Pathway: Past and Current Perspectives / Harold L. Drake -- 2. The Acetyl-CoA Pathway and the Chemiosmotic Generation of ATP during Acetogenesis / Lars G. Ljungdahl -- 3. CO Dehydrogenase and the Central Role of This Enzyme in the Fixation of Carbon Dioxide by Anaerobic Bacteria / Stephen W. Ragsdale -- 4. The Sodium Ion Cycle in Acetogenic and Methanogenic Bacteria: Generation and Utilization of a Primary Electrochemical Sodium Ion Gradient / Volker Muller and Gerhard Gottschalk -- 5. Energetics of Acetogenesis from C[subscript 1] Units / Gabriele Diekert and Gert Wohlfarth -- 6. Corrinoid-Dependent Mechanism of Acetogenesis from Methanol / Erhard Stupperich -- 7. Diversity, Ecology, and Isolation of Acetogenic Bacteria / Bernhard Schink -- 8. Development of DNA Probes for the Detection and Identification of Acetogenic Bacteria / Charles R. Lovell.
• 9. A Phylogenetic Assessment of the Acetogens / Ralph S. Tanner and Carl R. Woese -- 10. Acetogenesis: Reality in the Laboratory, Uncertainty Elsewhere / Harold L. Drake, Steven L. Daniel, Carola Matthies and Kirsten Kusel -- 11. Acetogenesis from Carbon Dioxide in Termite Guts / John A. Breznak -- 12. Acetogenesis and the Rumen: Syntrophic Relationships / Roderick I. Mackie and Marvin P. Bryant -- 13. Acetogenesis from CO[subscript 2] in the Human Colonic Ecosystem / Meyer J. Wolin and Terry L. Miller -- 14. Syntrophic Acetate Oxidation and "Reversible Acetogenesis" / Stephen H. Zinder -- 15. Acetogenesis at Low Temperature / Alla N. Nozhevnikova, Oleg R. Kotsyurbenko and Marija V. Simankova -- 16. Halophilic Acetogenic Bacteria / George A. Zavarzin, Tatjana N. Zhilina and Margarete A. Pusheva -- 17. O-Demethylation and Other Transformations of Aromatic Compounds by Acetogenic Bacteria / Anne Cornish Frazer.
• 18. Acetate and the Potential of Homoacetogenic Bacteria for Industrial Applications / Juergen Wiegel -- 19. Variations of the Acetyl-CoA Pathway in Diversely Related Microorganisms That Are Not Acetogens / Georg Fuchs -- 20. Autotrophic Acetyl Coenzyme A Biosynthesis in Methanogens / William B. Whitman -- 21. CO Dehydrogenase of Methanogens / James G. Ferry -- 22. Occurrence and Function of the Acetyl-CoA Cleavage Pathway in a Syntrophic Propionate-Oxidizing Bacterium / Alfons J. M. Stams and Caroline M. Plugge -- 23. Acetate via Glycine: A Different Form of Acetogenesis / Jan R. Andreesen.

ISBN

0412032112 :

LCCN

93043138

OCLC

• 29356831
• ocm29356831

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries