This fully updated new edition provides an overview on the advances in understanding microbial responses to hydrocarbons. The book is organized in 5 parts:

• Problems of Hydrophobicity, Bioavailability
• Sensing, Signaling and Uptake
• Problems of Solventogenicity, Solvent Tolerance
• Problems of Feast or Famine
• Hydrophobic Modifications of Biomolecules
  Topics covered include mechanisms of sensing, hydrocarbon tolerance and degradation as well as an overview on hydrophobic modification of biomolecules. Other chapters are dedicated to issues related to the reduced bioavailability of hydrocarbons, which differentiates this class of compounds form many others, but which is of central importance to understand the ecophysiological consequences.

This book is essential reading for any laboratory engaged in this field.

Reviews research on the ecophysiological consequences of microbial exposure to hydrocarbons Covers microbial mechanisms of sensing, tolerance to hydrocarbons and degradation Also discusses reduced hydrocarbon bioavailability and resulting ecophysiological consequences Additional multimedia content accessible in browser or via SN More Media App

Autorentext

Emanuele Biondi earned his PhD in Florence (Italy) working on Sinorhizobium meliloti . During his postdoc at Harvard University and then MIT he worked on Caulobacter crescentus cell cycle focusing on signal transduction, discovering how cell cycle controls stalk biogenesis and proposing the first complete regulatory model of Caulobacter cell cycle. In 2010, he joined the French CNRS, and he's now working in Gif sur Yvette at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC).

The Biondi lab has been investigating how cell cycle is regulated in C. crescents and S. meliloti , aiming to elucidate general principles by which bacteria coordinate expression of genes and phosphorylation cascades with asymmetrical cell division and cell differentiation.

Inhalt

Genomic Response of Pseudomonas putida to Toluene.- Bioinformatic, Molecular, and Genetic Tools for Exploring Genome-Wide Responses to Hydrocarbons.- Problems of Hydrophobicity/Bioavailability: An Introduction.- Matrix:Hydrophobic Compound Interactions.- Microorganism-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions.- Assimilation of Hydrocarbons and Lipids by Means of Biofilm Formation.- Biodiversity of Biosurfactants and Roles in Enhancing the (Bio)availability of Hydrophobic Substrates.- Biofilm Stress Responses Associated to Aromatic Hydrocarbons.- Uptake and Assimilation of Hydrophobic Substrates by the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica.