Nanomicrobiology Physiological and Environmental Characteristics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barton, Larry L. (Editor), Bazylinski, Dennis A. (Editor), Xu, Huifang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Microbiology.; Bacteriology.; Nanotechnology.; Life Sciences.; Applied Microbiology.

This book is devoted to nanomicrobiology and the nanosystems of bacteria.  The initial chapter discusses some of the controversies in the geochemical and biomedical fields associated with the reports of nanobacteria in the environment. Current knowledge of several internal and surface structures of...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Nanostructures and nanobacteria
• S-layer structure in bacteria and archaea
• Magnetotactic Bacteria, Magnetosomes and Nanotechnology
• Carboxysomes and their structural organization in prokaryotes
• Bacterial organization at the smallest level: Molecular motors, nanowires, and outer membrane vesicles
• The mechanism of bacterial gliding motility: Insights from molecular and cellular studies in the Myxobacteria and Bacteroidetes
• Nanoparticles formed by microbial metabolism of metals and minerals.