Microbial Transport Systems
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9783527600724
Subjects: Biological transport; Microbial metabolism
Description: Transport of molecules across the cell membrane is a fundamental process of all living organisms. It is essential for understanding growth, development, nutrition as well as uptake and excretion of exogenous or synthesized molecules. Microbes respresent general and basic functional systems where many transport processes have been studied on a molecular basis. Knowledge of the microbial transport processes will provide new perspectives to treatments by inhibitors, drugs, antibiotics, vitamins, growth promotion compounds, activators and toxic compunds of various kinds.