This book explains the metabolic processes by which microbes obtain and control the intracellular availability of their required metal and metalloid ions. The book also describes how intracellular concentrations of unwanted metal and metalloid ions successfully are limited. Its authors additionally provide information about the ways that microbes derive metabolic energy by changing the charge states of metal and metalloid ions.Part one of this book provides an introduction to microbes, metals and metalloids. It also helps our readers to understand the chemical constraints for transition metal cation allocation.

Part two explains the basic processes which microbes use for metal transport. That section also explains the uses, as well as the challenges, associated with metal-based antimicrobials.

Part three gives our readers an understanding that because of microbial capabilities to process metals and metalloids, the microbes have become our best tools for accomplishing many jobs. Their applications in chemical technology include the design of microbial consortia for use in bioleaching processes that recover metal and metalloid ions from industrial wastes. Many biological engineering tasks, including the synthesis of metal nanoparticles and similar metalloid structures, also are ideally suited for the microbes.

Part four describes unique attributes associated with the microbiology of these elements, progressing through the alphabet from antimony and arsenic to zinc.

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Christon J. HurstCincinnati, Ohio, USA

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Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Valle, Colombia e-mail: christonjhurst@fuse.net

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Table of Contents for Volume 10

Microbial Metabolism of Metals and Metalloids

Editor: Christon J. Hurst

Introduction

Chapter 1: "Metal Munching Microbes"

John F. Stolz ^

Chapter 2: "Chemical constraints for transition metal cation allocation"

Dietrich H. Nies ^

Understanding Commonality of the Basic Processes

Chapter 3: "The mosaic landscape of algal metal transport and usage" Crysten E. Blaby-Haas ^

Chapter 4: "Metal based antimicrobials - Uses and Challenges"

Daniel A. Salazar-Alemán and Raymond J. Turner ^

When Microbes are the Best Tool for the Job

Chapter 5: "Microbial consortium: A promising strategy for bioleaching of metals from industrial wastes"

Mital Chakankar and Hocheng Hong ^

Chapter 6: "Molecular mechanisms that mediate microbial synthesis of metal nanoparticles"

Ankit Banik, Meyappan Vadivel, Moumita Mondal and Natarajan Sakthivel ^

Chapter 7: "Bacterial Production of Metal(loid) Nanostructures"

Nikhil Pradhan and Raymond J. Turner ^

Uniqueness of the Elements

Chapter 8: "Microbes: key players of the arsenic biogeochemical cycle"

Rimi Biswas and Angana Sarkar ^

Chapter 9: "Microbial Transformations of Antimony"

Huaqing Liu, Weimin Sun and Max M. Häggblom ^

Chapter 10: "Microbial remediation of chromium"

Gomathy M., Sabarinathan K.G., Subramaian K.S., Sivashankari Devi, T., Ananthi K, Kalaiselvi, P. and Jeyshree M.

Chapter 11: "Microbial interactions with gold and uranium"

Sadia Ilyas, Hyunjung Kim and Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava ^

Chapter 12: "Prokaryotic ferrous iron transport: exploiting pools of reduced iron across multiple microbial environments"

Alex E. Sestok, Mark A. Lee, and Aaron T. Smith ^

Chapter 13: "Pterin Containing Microbial Molybdenum Enzymes"

Mikayla C. Metzger and Partha Basu

Partha Basu ^

Chapter 14: "Microbial Metabolism of Nickel"

Robert P. Hausinger ^

Chapter 15: "Microbial transformation of silicon in soil"

Kalyanasundaram Geetha Thanuja, V. S. Reddy Kiran Kalyan, Subburamu Karthikeyan, Savariappan Anthoniraj ,