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BIOCHEMISTRY OF MICROBIAL DEGRADATION
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By: |
Colin Ratledge (Editor) |
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Hardback |

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ISBN 10: |
0792322738 |
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9780792322733 |
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KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS |
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584 |
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Brings together accounts of the mechanisms whereby microorganisms are able to degrade a wide variety of compounds. The compounds range from petroleum-derived materials to the degradation of the major natural materials that microorganisms may encounter in all types of habitat. |
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This work brings together a number of accounts of the mechanisms whereby microorganisms are able to degrade a wide variety of compounds. These compounds range from petroleum-derived materials, which continue to predominate in questions of environmental contamination and pollution, to the degradation of the major natural materials that microorganisms may encounter in all types of habitat. Both aerobic and anaerobic modes of attack are covered. The emphasis in all the chapters is upon the underlying biochemical pathways that microorganisms use: differences between bacteria, yeasts and moulds are highlighted whenever opportune and uses of microbial consortia for attack on the most recalcitrant molecules is also documented. Activity of microorganisms in the soil, groundwater and marine environments are all considered. The book should be of interest to all whose work brings them into contact with the results of microbial degradations. The consequences of microbial degradations may be beneficial as well as deleterious: an advantage with some compounds, a decided disadvantage with others.The basis by which microorganisms achieve these attacks then provides the vital knowledge that will accelerate the former and, hopefully, retard the latter. The pathways of microbial degradations of all major classes of compounds are covered in a single volume. The diversity of microbial activities are clearly described and current advances in the applications of biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, enzyme chemistry and engineering feature in almost every chapter. |
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references, index |
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US |
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Kluwer Academic Publishers |
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