Bacterial Energetics (Bacteria: A Treatise on Structure and Function, Volume XII)

Hardcover, xi+569 pages. Ex-foreign university library, officially withdrawn, with sparse ownership, inventory and price markings. Book is clean and bright, untanned, with unmarked text, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents [+intro & ref in each chapter]: 1. Respiration-Driven Proton Pumps; 2. Primary Sodium Pumps & Their Significance in Bacterial Energetics [Respiration- & Decarboxylase- & ATP-Driven Sodium Pump; Significance of Primary Sodium Pumps in Energetics]; 3. Light-Driven Primary Ionic Pumps [Transport Physiology of the Halobacteria; Structure of Bacterial Rhodopsins; Retinal Chromophore; Photocycle; Photoelectric Effects in Oriented Bacteriorhodopsin & Halorhodopsin Systems; Ion Translocation Models; Summary & Prospects]; 4. Bacterial Transport ATPases [P-Type; Peripheral Membrane Protein; Other ATP-Driven Systems; Summary & Overview]; 5. Bacterial Photosynthesis: From Photons to Delta pH [Taxonomy; Habitats; Pigments; Antenna System; Photochemical Reaction Centers; Cytochrome bcx Complex; Noncyclic Electron Flow; Consumption of the Proton Gradient]; 6. Active Transport [Membrane Vesicles & Active Transport; Bioenergetics; Molecules: lac Permease of Escherichia coli; Use of Oligonucleotide-Directed Site-Specific Mutagenesis to Probe the Structure & Function of lac Permease]; 7. Sodium-Coupled Cotransport [Na+ Cotransport in Escherichia coli & Salmonella typhimurium: Paradigms & in Other Bacteria; Recognition of Na+; Summary]; 8. Energetics of Periplasmic Transport Systems [General Characteristics of Periplasmic Permeases; Transport Models; Energy Coupling; Universality of the Conserved Component: Relationship to Energy Coupling; Conclusions]; 9. Ion-Exchange Systems in Prokaryotes [Cation-Linked Antiporters; Amino Acid-Linked Antiporters; Anion Antiporters]; 10. Energetics of the Bacterial Phosphotransferase System in Sugar Transport & Regulation of Carbon Metabolism [Energetics of Sugar Transport via the Phosphotransferase System PTS; Regulation of PTS Sugar Uptake; Energetics of the PTS in Relation to Other Carbohydrate Permeases; Regulation of Non-PTS Sugar Uptake; Energetics of Gluconeogenesis; PTS-Mediated Regulation of Gluconeogenesis; Energetics of Anaerobic versus Aerobic Carbohydrate Metabolism; Regulation of Anaerobic vs Aerobic Carbohydrate Metabolism; PTS-Mediated Regulation of Virulence; Conclusions & Perspectives]; 11. Motility [Mechanics; Energetics; Structure; Mechanism; Summary]; 12. Molecular Mechanics of ATP Synthesis of F1F0-Type H+-Transporting ATP Synthases [Site of the Transphosphorylation Reaction in F1; Structure of H+-Translocating F0 Sector; Molecular Mechanics in Coupling H+ Translocation to ATP Synthesis]; 13. Energetic Aspects of Protein Insertion & Translocation into or across Membranes [Involvement of an Energized Membrane in Bacterial Protein Insertion & Translocation; ATP-Dependent Protein Translocation; Translocation of Lipoprotein; Conclusion & Perspectives]; 14. Bioenergetics in Extreme Environments [Extremes of pH; High Salinity; Extreme Temperatures; High Pressure; Conclusions]; 15. Energetic Problems of Bacterial Fermentations: Extrusion of Metabolic End Products [Passive Flux of Metabolites; Lactate Efflux and the Energy-Recycling Model; Transport of Metabolites of the Arginine and Agmatine Deiminase Pathways; Concluding Remarks]; 16. Energetics of Chemolithotrophs [Chemolithotrophic Energy Substrates & Their Oxidation; Electron Transport & Terminal Electron-Accepting Systems; Formation of ATP and Reduced NAD(P) in Chemolithotrophs; Chemiosmotic Energy Coupling in Chemolithotrophy; Chemical Thermodynamics, Energetic Efficiency, Growth Yields; yATP Concept Applied to Chemolithotrophs; Bioenergetic Unity & Chemolithotrophs]; 17. Energetics of Methanogens [Physiology of Methanogens; Biochemistry of Methanogenesis; Synthesis of ATP Coupled to Methanogenesis; Sodium Energetics in Methanogens; Concluding Remarks].…