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Biochemistry of microbial degradation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Biochemistry of microbial degradation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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This book brings together a number of comprehensive accounts of the
mechanisms whereby microorganisms are able to degrade a wide
variety of compounds. These compounds range from petroleum-derived
materials, which continue to predominate in questions of
environmental contamination and pollution, to the degradation of
the major natural materials that microorganisms may encounter in
all types of habitat. Both aerobic and anaerobic modes of attack
are covered. The emphasis in all the chapters is upon the
underlying biochemical pathways that microorganisms use:
differences between bacteria, yeasts and moulds are highlighted
whenever opportune and uses of microbial consortia for attack on
the most recalcitrant molecules is also well documented. Activity
of microorganisms in the soil, groundwater and marine environments
are all dealt with here. The book will be of value and interest to
all whose work brings them into direct or even indirect contact
with the results of microbial degradations. The consequences of
microbial degradations may be beneficial as well as deletrious: an
advantage with some compounds, a decided disadvantage with others.
The basis by which microorganisms achieve these attacks then
provides the vital knowledge that will accelerate the former and,
hopefully, retard the latter. For the first time the pathways of
microbial degradations of all major classes of compounds are
covered in a single volume. The diversity of microbial activities
are clearly described and current advances in the applications of
biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, enzyme chemistry and
engineering feature in almost every chapter.
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