Microbial Physiology

Contents Preface 1 Bacterial cell 2 Nutritional requirements of cells 3 Factors influencing bacterial growth 4 Bacterial growth curve 5 Measurement of bacterial growth 6 Extremophiles 7 Bacterial enzymes 8 Bacterial metabolisms 9 Bacterial catabolism 10 Heterotrophic metabolism 11 Respiration 12 Phototrophic metabolism 13 Biosynthesis 14 Lactic acid bacterial metabolism 15 Nucleotide metabolism 16 Microbial transformation of organic substances 17 Electron transport chain 18 Proton motive force 19 Oxidative phosphorylation 20 Anaerobic respiration 21 Bacterial pigments 22 Photosynthesis and respiration in cyanobacteria 23 Cell wall synthesis 24 Functions of bacterial cytoplasmic membrane 25 Bacterial endospores 26 Regulation and control of metabolism in bacteria 27 Biochemical and metabolic properties of microbes 28 Bacterial toxigenesis 29 Bacterial endotoxin 30 Antimicrobial agents and mode of actions 31 Bacterial metabolism in wastewater treatment systems 32 Parasitic physiology 33 Malaria 34 Microbial and molecular evolution 35 Bergeys manual of determinative bacteriology Bibliography IndexFrom the preface This book persist the tradition of addressing the physiology of variety of microbes in which the author has tried to make the subject as comprehensive updated and concise as possible During the preparation of the book several standard and latest books and research papers have been referred Each chapter is written in a simple and cogent language and deals not only with physiology but also biochemistry and biochemical reactions To make matter more understandable many new and well informative diagrams have been incorporated wherever necessary 284 pp.…