Thermophilic Microbes in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology : Biotechnology of Thermophiles - Satyanarayana, Tulasi; Littlechild, Jennifer; Kawarabayasi, Yutaka; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Preface -- Part I Thermophiles in the environment -- Diversity of hot environments and thermophilic microbes -- Exploring the ecology of thermophiles from Australia's Great Artesian Basin during the genomic era -- Hot environments from Antarctica -- Bacterial and biochemical properties of newly invented aerobic, high-temperature compost -- Role of thermophilic microflora in composting -- Metal remediation by thermophilic microorganisms -- CO-oxidizing anaerobic thermophilic prokaryotes -- Biomineralization in thermal environments -- Phylogeny and biological features of thermophiles -- Biology, biodiversity and application of thermophilic viruses -- Part II Genomics, Metagenomics and Biotechnology -- Genomics of thermophilic bacteria and archaea -- Comparative genomics of thermophilic bacteria and archaea -- Host-vector system in thermophiles -- Molecular chaperones in thermophilic eubacteria and archaea -- Heterologous Production of thermostable proteins and enzymes -- Discovery of thermostable enzymes from hot environmental samples by metagenomic approaches -- DNA polymerases and DNA ligases -- Molecular diversity of biotechnological relevance of thermophilic actinobacteria -- Mechanisms of thermostability adopted by thermophilic proteins and their use in white biotechnology -- Starch-hydrolyzing enzymes from thermophiles -- Thermostable archaeal and bacterial pullulanases and amylopullulanases -- Sugar metabolic enzymes -- Restriction enzymes from thermophiles -- Microbial chitinases -- Phytases and phosphatases of thermophiles: production, characteristics and multifarious applications -- Pectinases of thermophilic microbes -- Developments in thermostable gellanlyase -- Lignocellulolytic system of thermophilic fungi and actinomycetes -- Cellulases of thermophilic microbes -- 30 Xylanases from thermophilic fungi -- 31 Thermostable bacterial xylanases -- 32 Thermostable proteases -- 33 Microbial keratinases -- 34. Biocatalysis through thermostable lipases. Index.
Keywords: Medicine; Microbiology; Entomology; Bacteriology; Waste management; Biomedicine, general; Applied Microbiology; Entomology; Bacteriology; Eukaryotic Microbiology; Waste Management/Waste Technology