Advances in Microbial Physiology

1st Edition, Volume 85 - July 18, 2024
Imprint: Academic Press
Editors: Robert K. Poole, David J. Kelly
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:
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Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 85 in this ongoing serial, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is wri… Read more

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Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 85 in this ongoing serial, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. Topics of interest in this update include The genetic basis of predation by myxobacteria, Vancomycin susceptibility and VISA in Staphylococcus aureus, Cytochrome bd-type oxidases and environmental stressors in microbial physiology, Bacterial heme-containing sensor proteins, Algal hemoglobins, Inter-species interactions in polymicrobial infections, Utilization of Low Methane Concentrations by Methanotrophs, and Role of sulfidogenic members of the gut microbiota in human disease.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Preface
Chapter One: The genetic basis of predation by myxobacteria
Abstract
Abbreviations
1 The myxobacteria
2 Myxobacterial predatory activity
3 The genetic basis of predatory activity
4 Applications in biological control
5 Perspectives
References
Chapter Two: Utilisation of low methane concentrations by methanotrophs
Abstract
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Methane oxidation systems
3 Possibility of a high affinity pMMO
4 Growth on low methane concentrations
5 Strategies for decreasing methane to slow global warming
6 Future Work
7 Summary
References
Chapter Three: The globins of cyanobacteria and green algae: An update
Abstract
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 The haem-binding globins of cyanobacteria and green algae
3 The linear tetrapyrrole-binding globins of cyanobacteria and algae
4 The RsbR-like proteins
5 Phylogeny of the five-branch globin superfamily
6 Applications
7 Concluding remarks
Acknowledgement
References
Chapter Four: Role of sulfidogenic members of the gut microbiota in human disease
Abstract
Abbreviations
1 The human gut microbiome
2 Diet and dysbiosis
3 Hydrogen sulfide in the gut
4 Bilophila wadsworthia
5 Sulfidogenic bacteria and disease
6 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter Five: Staphylococcus aureus response and adaptation to vancomycin
Abstract
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 VISA and hVISA definitions
3 Clinical impact of VISA
4 Vancomycin mode of action and VISA phenotypes
5 Transient VISA
6 VISA mutations
7 Collateral susceptibility to antimicrobials
8 Collateral effects of VISA on phage susceptibility
9 Epistasis and stability
10 Perspectives
Acknowledgement
References
Further reading
Chapter Six: The past, present and future of polymicrobial infection research: Modelling, eavesdropping, terraforming and other stories
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Laboratory endeavours
3 Imaging: direct observation and heterogeneity
4 The extracellular interactome: P. aeruginosa as micro-architect of the lung
5 Interspecies relations: social and antisocial microbes in infection
6 Understanding the ecology of inter-species interactions: computational approaches and perspectives
7 Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References

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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