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Chapter One. Heme Proteins in Lactic Acid Bacteria
Abstract
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Properties and Biosynthesis of Heme
3 Heme Proteins
4 Lactic Acid Bacteria
5 Heme and LAB in Historical Perspective
6 Acquisition and Intracellular Fate of Heme
7 Heme Proteins in LAB
8 Heme Protein Biogenesis
9 Concluding Remarks and Outlook
Acknowledgement
References
Chapter Two. Microbial Sulfite Respiration
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Properties of Sulfite and Related Compounds
3 The Diverse Role of Sulfite in Microbial Metabolism
4 Sulfite-Converting Enzymes—Overview and Terminology
5 Physiology of Sulfite-Converting Microorganisms
6 Microbial Sulfite Reductases
7 Microbial Sulfite Dehydrogenases
8 Evolutionary Aspects
9 Conclusions and Perspectives
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter Three. Our Second Genome—Human Metagenome: How Next-Generation Sequencer Changes our Life Through Microbiology
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Overview of NGS Technology
3 Genomics and Metagenomics of Microbes
4 Scientific Publication Tells Great Potential of Metagenomic Applications with NGS
5 Microbial Profiling and Diversity in Environment
6 Human and Mouse Metagenome on Healthcare Study
7 Virus and Vaccine
8 Bird View of Human Metagenome Project
9 First Artificial Life Form by Synthesis
10 Publicly Available Bioinformatic Tools for Metagenomics and Microbial Diversity
11 How Future Advances in NGSn is Going to Change Our Life
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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Professor Robert K Poole is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was previously West Riding Professor of Microbiology at Sheffield and until 1996 held a Personal Chair in Microbiology at King’s College London. During his long career, he has been awarded several research Fellowships, and taken sabbatical leave at the Australian National University, Kyoto University and Cornell University. His career-long interests have been in the areas of bacterial respiratory metabolism, metal-microbe interactions and bioactive small gas molecules. In particular, he has made notable contributions to bacterial terminal oxidases and resistance to nitric oxide with implications for bacterial pathogenesis. He co-discovered the flavohaemoglobin Hmp, now recognised as the preeminent mechanism of nitric oxide resistance in bacteria. He has served as Chairman of numerous research council grant committees, held research grants for over 40 years and published extensively (h-index, 2024 = 70). He served on several Institute review panels in the UK and overseas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Biology.