Advances in Microbial Physiology

1st Edition, Volume 78 - June 15, 2021
Imprint: Academic Press
Editors: Robert K. Poole, David J. Kelly
Language: English
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Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 78, the latest release in this ongoing series, continues the long tradition of topical, important, cutting-edge reviews in microbiology. This updated release contains the latest information in the field, with comprehensive chapters covering Microbubble Intensification of Bioprocessing, Bacterial cellulose: biosynthesis, production, and applications, Microbial energy management – a product of three broad tradeoffs, and more.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Preface
Chapter One: A protet-based, protonic charge transfer model of energy coupling in oxidative and photosynthetic phosphorylation
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Basic issues of electron transport-linked phosphorylation
3: Lipid-centric and protein-centric views of energy coupling membranes, and the importance of proteins in solute transport
4: Osmotic swelling experiments
5: Diffusion potentials
6: The steady-state value of the pmf during oxidative and photosynthetic phosphorylation
7: Fluorescent probe-based estimation of membrane potentials (and other properties) in energy coupling systems
8: Respiration-driven proton translocation
9: Co-reconstitution of purified coupling systems
10: Uncoupling
11: Double-inhibitor titrations
12: With what would we replace a chemiosmotic coupling scheme?
13: Are there extra coupling proteins between ETC and ATP synthase complexes?
14: How do uncouplers and ionophores work in the protonic charge transfer (PCT) model?
15: Out-of-equilibrium macrostates of proteins and protein ensembles
16: Highly substoichiometric uncoupling by membrane-active bacteriocins
17: Surface potentials and energy coupling
18: What is the ‘capacity’ of the ‘high-energy intermediate’ XE?
19: Other ‘non-chemiosmotic’ or ‘microchemiosmotic’ models
20: Proposed mechanisms and some means of testing them
21: Relative spatial locations of free-energy-transducing complexes during electron transport-linked phosphorylation
22: Assessment of membrane potential generation in energy coupling systems
23: Novel inhibitors of energy coupling?
24: Role of modern molecular biology methods
25: Collective behavior in solid-state physics
26: Reprise of where the PCT model differs notably from that of chemiosmotic coupling
27: Concluding remarks
Declarations
Acknowledgments
Chapter Two: Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae: The molecular determinants of virulence and pathogenesis
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Pathology of infection
3: Virulence factors involved in host-cell adherence
4: Biofilm formation
5: Nutrient acquisition
6: Combatting host defences
7: Host tissue damage
8: Phase-variation in A. pleuropneumoniae
9: Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter Three: Streptococcus suis pathogenesis—A diverse array of virulence factors for a zoonotic lifestyle
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Adhesins and cell surface factors
3: Toxins and inflammation
4: Immunoevasion
5: Resistance to oxidative stress, and metal ion acquisition and tolerance
6: Two component systems: Regulation of multiple virulence-associated factors
7: Transcription factors and environmental sensors
8: Epigenetic regulation of virulence by restriction-modification (R-M) systems
9: Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter Four: Bacterial nitric oxide metabolism: Recent insights in rhizobia
Abstract
1: Introduction to the nitric oxide (NO) molecule
2: NO sources
3: NO sinks
4: NO metabolism in the rhizobia-legume symbiosis
5: Concluding remarks and future perspectives
Acknowledgments
Chapter Five: Microbial corrosion of metals: The corrosion microbiome
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Diversity of microbes promoting Fe0 corrosion
3: Microbial stimulation of aerobic Fe0 corrosion
4: Anaerobic iron corrosion mechanisms
5: Corrosion of metals other than Fe0
6: Toward an environmental systems biology approach to the study of corrosion
7: Techniques for studying microbial corrosion
8: Strategies for preventing corrosion of metals by microbes
9: Conclusions and future directions
Acknowledgements

Robert K. Poole

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.

Affiliations and expertise

West Riding Professor of Microbiology, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK

David J. Kelly

Professor David Kelly is Emeritus Professor of Microbial Physiology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has >35 years research expertise in bacterial physiology and biochemistry, membrane protein transport processes and bioenergetics, and has worked with the zoonotic food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni for >25 years. A major program to study C. jejuni physiology was carried out in his laboratory, in particular the responses to oxygen, many aspects of carbon metabolism and functional analysis of the electron transport chains. He has long-standing interests in membrane transport mechanisms and in the 1990s discovered an entirely new class of periplasmic binding-protein dependent prokaryotic solute transporters, the TRAP transporters, now known to be common in a diverse range of bacteria and archaea. He has published >150 papers (h-index 2024 = 56), held numerous grants, served on grant committees and has been a regular invited speaker at national and international conferences. He is the recipient of a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, UK.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor of Microbiology, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, UK

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