Biogenesis of Fatty Acids, Lipids and Membranes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Geiger, Otto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology
• Subjects: Microbiology.; Environmental engineering.; Biotechnology.; Biochemistry.; Microbial ecology.; Applied Microbiology.; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.; Biochemistry, general.; Microbial Ecology.

Concise chapters, written by experts in the field, cover a wide spectrum of topics on lipid and membrane formation in microbes (Archaea, Bacteria, eukaryotic microbes). All cells are delimited by a lipid membrane, which provides a crucial boundary in any known form of life. Readers will discover sig...