Inclusions in Prokaryotes [electronic resource] /
Shively, Jessup M.editor.
Focusing on intracellular components in prokaryotes, this volume defines the components and labelled inclusions as discrete bodies resulting from synthesis of a metabolic product. It provides historical background and comprehensive reviews of eight well-known prokaryotic inclusions.
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Focusing on intracellular components in prokaryotes, this volume defines the components and labelled inclusions as discrete bodies resulting from synthesis of a metabolic product. It provides historical background and comprehensive reviews of eight well-known prokaryotic inclusions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Inclusions in Prokaryotes -- Prokaryote Inclusions: Descriptions and Discoveries -- Bacterial Sulfur Globules: Occurrence, Structure and Metabolism -- Acidocalcisomes and Polyphosphate Granules -- Bacterial Glycogen Inclusions: Enzymology and Regulation of Synthesis -- Biogenesis and Structure of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Granules -- Wax Ester and Triacylglycerol Inclusions -- Cyanophycin-an Ideal Bacterial Nitrogen Storage Material with Unique Chemical Properties -- Insecticidal Protein Crystals of Bacillus thuringiensis -- Protein Inclusion Bodies in Recombinant Bacteria -- Cameos of Selected Additional Inclusions -- Vacuoles -- The Unique Role of Intracellular Calcification in the Genus Achromatium -- Metal Inclusions in Bacteria -- Inclusion Proteins fromother Insecticidal Bacteria -- R-bodies.
Microbiology.
Bacteriology.
Biochemistry.
Microbiology.
Bacteriology.
Biochemistry, general.


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