Molecular Microbiology of Heavy Metals

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nies, Dietrich H. (Editor), Silver, Simon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Microbiology Monographs, 6
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Organometallic chemistry.; Biochemistry.; Microbiology.; Bacteriology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Organometallic Chemistry.

All forms of life depend on a variety of heavy metal ions. Nearly one-third of all gene products require a metal ion for proper folding or function. However, even metals generally regarded as non-poisonous are toxic at higher concentrations, including the essential ones. Thus, sensitive regulation o...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular Physiology of Metal-Microbe Interactions According to Mechanisms
• Understanding How Cells Allocate Metals
• Metalloregulators: Arbiters of Metal Sufficiency
• Transcriptomic Responses of Bacterial Cells to Sublethal Metal Ion Stress
• Bacterial Transition Metal Homeostasis
• Biosensing of Heavy Metals
• A Glossary of Microanalytical Tools to Assess the Metallome
• Molecular Physiology of Metal-Microbe Interactions According to Groups
• Acquisition of Iron by Bacteria
• New Transport Deals for Old Iron
• Manganese: Uptake, Biological Function, and Role in Virulence
• How Bacteria Handle Copper
• Microbial Physiology of Nickel and Cobalt
• Zinc, Cadmium, and Lead Resistance and Homeostasis
• Microbiology of the Toxic Noble Metal Silver
• Mercury Microbiology: Resistance Systems, Environmental Aspects, Methylation, and Human Health
• Arsenic Metabolism in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbes
• Reduction and Efflux of Chromate by Bacteria
• Molybdate and Tungstate: Uptake, Homeostasis, Cofactors, and Enzymes.