Microbial Biochemistry [3 ed.] 978-94-017-8907-3, 978-94-017-8908-0

Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Bacterial Growth....Pages 1-12
The Outer Membrane of Gram-Negative Bacteria and the Cytoplasmic Membrane....Pages 13-21
Peptidoglycan Synthesis and Cell Division....Pages 23-30
Cellular Permeability....Pages 31-58
Allosteric Enzymes....Pages 59-71
Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis and Glycogen and Cellulose Synthesis....Pages 73-83
The Pentose Phosphate and Entner-Doudoroff Pathways....Pages 85-90
The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle and the Glyoxylate Bypass....Pages 91-112
ATP-Generating Processes: Respiration and Fermentation....Pages 113-125
Biosynthesis of Lipids....Pages 127-138
Iron-Sulfur Proteins....Pages 139-145
The Archaea....Pages 147-152
Methanogens and Methylotrophs....Pages 153-177
Enzyme Induction in Catabolic Systems....Pages 179-193
Transcription: RNA Polymerase....Pages 195-204
Negative Regulation....Pages 205-217
Enzyme Repression in Anabolic Pathways....Pages 219-225
Positive Regulation....Pages 227-234
The Ribosomes, Translation, Chaperones and Chaperonins....Pages 235-245
The Genetic Code, the Transfer RNAs and the Aminoacyl-tRNA-Synthetases....Pages 247-259
Attenuation....Pages 261-267
Regulation by RNAs and Riboswitches....Pages 269-274
The Biological Fixation of Nitrogen....Pages 275-281
How Biosynthetic Pathways Have Been Established....Pages 283-288
The Aspartic Acid Family of Amino Acids: Biosynthesis....Pages 289-308
Regulation of the Biosynthesis of the Amino Acids of the Aspartic Acid Family in Enterobacteriaceae ....Pages 309-341
Other Patterns of Regulation of the Synthesis of Amino Acids of the Aspartate Family....Pages 343-351
Biosynthesis of the Amino Acids of the Glutamic Acid Family and Its Regulation....Pages 353-385
Biosynthesis of Amino Acids Derived from Phosphoglyceric Acid and Pyruvic Acid....Pages 387-403
Selenocysteine and Selenoproteins....Pages 405-414
Biosynthesis of Aromatic Amino Acids and Its Regulation....Pages 415-441
The Biosynthesis of Histidine and Its Regulation....Pages 443-452
The Biosynthesis of Nucleotides....Pages 453-476
The Biosynthesis of Deoxyribonucleotides....Pages 477-489
Biosynthesis of Some Water-Soluble Vitamins and of Their Coenzyme Forms....Pages 491-522
Biosynthesis of Carotene, Vitamin A, Sterols, Ubiquinones and Menaquinones....Pages 523-538
Biosynthesis of the Tetrapyrrole Ring System....Pages 539-553
Biosynthesis of Cobalamins Including Vitamin B12....Pages 555-565
Interactions Between Proteins and DNA....Pages 567-578
Evolution of Biosynthetic Pathways....Pages 579-597
Back Matter....Pages 599-611