Copper and Bacteria Evolution, Homeostasis and Toxicity /

• Main Author: Solioz, Marc (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Biometals,
• Subjects: Organometallic chemistry .; Microbiology.; Bacteriology.; Medical microbiology.; Organometallic Chemistry.; Applied Microbiology.; Medical Microbiology.

In the past two decades, great progress has been made in the understanding of copper as a bioelement. The book summarizes the current knowledge of copper toxicity, homeostasis and resistance in bacteria, in which proteins like copper ATPases, copper chaperones and copper-responsive regulators of gen...

Table of Contents:

• Copper - a modern bioelement
• The essence of copper homeostasis
• Copper toxicity mechanisms
• Copper homeostasis in Gram-positive bacteria
• Copper homeostasis in Gram-negative bacteria
• Chalkophores, the 'siderophores' for copper
• Copper loading of cuproenzymes
• Contact killing of bacteria by metallic copper.