Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria

The book summarizes the achievements of the past decade in the biochemistry, bioenergetics, structural and molecular biology of respiratory processes in selected genera of the domain Bacteria along with an extensive coverage of the redox chains of extremophiles belonging to the Archaean domain. The volume is a unique piece of work since it contains a series of chapters dealing with metabolic features having important microbiological and ecological relevance such as the use of ammonium, iron, methane, sulfur and hydrogen as respiratory substrates or nitrous compounds in denitrification processes. Particular attention is also dedicated to peculiar groups of prokaryotes such as Gram positives, acetic acid bacteria, pathogens of the genera Helicobacter and Campylobacter, nitrogen fixing symbionts and free-living species, oxygenic phototrophs (Cyanobacteria) and anoxygenic (purple non-sulfur) phototrophs. The book is intended to be a long-term source of information for Ph.D. students, researchers and undergraduates from disciplines such as microbiology, biochemistry and ecology, studying basic and applied sciences, medicine and agriculture.

Unique as it contains chapters dealing with metabolic features having important microbiological and ecological relevance Summarizes achievements of the past decade in biochemistry, bioenergetics, structural and molecular biology of respiratory processes Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
1: Respiratory Chains in Archaea: From Minimal Systems to Supercomplexes.- 2: Aerobic Respiration in the Gram-Positive Bacteria.- 3: Respiratory Electron Transport in Helicobacter and campylobacter.- 4: Respiratory Chains in Acetic Acid Bacteria: Membranebound Periplasmic Sugar and Alcohol Respirations.- 5: Nitrogen Fixation and Respiration: Two Processes Linked by the Energetic Demands of Nitrogenase.- 6: The Oxidation of Ammonia as an Engergy Source in Bacteria.- 7: Respiration in Methanotrophs.- 8: The Enzymes and Bioenergetics of Bacterial Nitrate, Nitrite, Nitric Oxide and Nitrous Oxide Respiration.- 9: Fe(II) Oxidation by Thiobacillus ferroxidans: The Role of the Cytochrome c Oxidase in Energy Coupling.- 10: Sulfur Respiration.- 11: Hydrogen Respiration.- 12: Cyanobacterial Respiration.- 13: Interactions Between Photosynthesis and Respiration in Facultative Anoxygenic Phototrophs.