Methane and Methanol Utilizers

Herausgegeben:Murrell, J. Colin; Dalton, Howard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Methane and its oxidation product, methanol, have occupied an important position in the chemical industry for many years: the former as a feedstock, the latter as a primary chemical from which many products are produced. More recently, the role played by methane as a potent "greenhouse" gas has aroused considerable attention from environmentalists and clima tologists alike. This role for C compounds has, of course, been quite 1 incidental to the myriad of microorganisms on this planet that have adapted their life-styles to take advantage of these readily available am bient sources. Methane, a renewable energy source that will always be with us, is actually a difficult molecule to activate; so any microorganism that can effect this may point the way to catalytic chemists looking for con trollable methane oxidation. Methanol, formed as a breakdown product of plant material, is also ubiquitous and has also encouraged the growth of prokaryotes and eukaryotes alike. In an attempt to give a balanced view of how microorganisms have been able to exploit these simple carbon sources, we have asked a number ofleading scientists (modesty forbids our own inclusion here) to contribute chapters on their specialist areas of the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Biotechnology Handbooks 5
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4899-2340-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781489923400
• ISBN-10: 1489923403
• Artikelnr.: 39933998

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction.- 2 Taxonomy of Methylotrophic Bacteria.- 3 Methane Oxidation by Methanotrophs: Physiological and Mechanistic Implications.- 4 The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Obligate Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria.- 5 The Physiology and Biochemistry of Aerobic Methanol-Utilizing Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria.- 6 The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Methanol-Utilizing Bacteria.- 7 Methanol-Utilizing Yeasts.- 8 Biotechnological and Applied Aspects of Methane and Methanol Utilizers.- Species Index.