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1 - Introduction to bacterial physiology and metabolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Byung Hong Kim  and
Geoffrey Michael Gadd
Byung Hong Kim
Affiliation:
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul
Geoffrey Michael Gadd
Affiliation:
University of Dundee
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Summary

The biosphere has been shaped both by physical events and by interactions with the organisms that occupy it. Among living organisms, prokaryotes are much more metabolically diverse than eukaryotes and can also thrive under a variety of extreme conditions where eukaryotes cannot. This is possible because of the wealth of genes, metabolic pathways and molecular processes that are unique to prokaryotic cells. For this reason, prokaryotes are very important in the cycling of elements, including carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus, as well as metals and metalloids such as copper, mercury, selenium, arsenic and chromium. A full understanding of the complex biological phenomena that occur in the biosphere therefore requires a deep knowledge of the unique biological processes that occur in this vast prokaryotic world.

After publication in 1995 of the first full DNA sequence of a free-living bacterium, Haemophilus influenzae, whole genome sequences of hundreds of prokaryotes have now been determined and many others are currently being sequenced (www.genomesonline.org/). Our knowledge of the whole genome profoundly influences all aspects of microbiology. Determination of entire genome sequences, however, is only a first step in fully understanding the properties of an organism and the environment in which the organism lives. The functions encoded by these sequences need to be elucidated to give biochemical, physiological and ecological meaning to the information. Furthermore, sequence analysis indicates that the biological functions of substantial portions of complete genomes are so far unknown.

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Bacterial Physiology and Metabolism , pp. 1 - 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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Sallstrom, B. & Andersson, S. G. E. (2005). Genome reduction in the α-proteobacteria. Current Opinion in Microbiology 8, 579–585.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Trevors, J. T. (1997). Bacterial evolution and metabolism. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 71, 257–263.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Weinbauer, M. G. & Rassoulzadegan, F. (2004). Are viruses driving microbial diversification and diversity?Environmental Microbiology 6, 1–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Boucher, Y., Nesbo, C. L. & Doolittle, W. F. (2001). Microbial genomes: dealing with diversity. Current Opinion in Microbiology 4, 285–289.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Clayton, R. A., White, O. & Fraser, C. M. (1998). Findings emerging from complete microbial genome sequences. Current Opinion in Microbiology 1, 562–566.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Conway, T. & Schoolnik, G. K. (2003). Microarray expression profiling: capturing a genome-wide portrait of the transcriptome. Molecular Microbiology 47, 879–889.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Doolittle, R. F. (2005). Evolutionary aspects of whole-genome biology. Current Opinion in Structural Biology 15, 248–253.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Francke, C., Siezen, R. J. & Teusink, B. (2005). Reconstructing the metabolic network of a bacterium from its genome. Trends in Microbiology 13, 550–558.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Glaser, P. & Boone, C. (2004). Beyond the genome: from genomics to systems biology. Current Opinion in Microbiology 7, 489–491.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Groisman, E. A. & Ehrlich, S. D. (2003). Genomics: a global view of gene gain, loss, regulation and function. Current Opinion in Microbiology 6, 479–481.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Nelson, K. E. (2003). The future of microbial genomics. Environmental Microbiology 5, 1223–1225.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Puhler, A. & Selbitschka, W. (2003). Genome research on bacteria relevant for agriculture, environment and biotechnology. Journal of Biotechnology 106, 119–120.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ward, N. & Fraser, C. M. (2005). How genomics has affected the concept of microbiology. Current Opinion in Microbiology 8, 564–571.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Cowan, D. A. (2004). The upper temperature for life – where do we draw the line?Trends in Microbiology 12, 58–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Deming, J. (2002). Psychrophiles and polar regions. Current Opinion in Microbiology 5, 301–309.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Javaux, E. J. (2006). Extreme life on Earth: past, present and possibly beyond. Research in Microbiology 157, 37–48.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mock, T. & Thomas, D. N. (2005). Recent advances in sea-ice microbiology. Environmental Microbiology 7, 605–619.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Simonato, F., Campanaro, S., Lauro, F. M., Vezzi, A., D'Angelo, M., Vitulo, N., Valle, G. & Bartlett, D. H. (2006). Piezophilic adaptation: a genomic point of view. Journal of Biotechnology 126, 11–25.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Steven, B., Leveille, R., Pollard, W. H. & Whyte, L. G. (2006). Microbial ecology and biodiversity in permafrost. Extremophiles 10, 259–267.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Anderson, N. L., Matheson, A. D. & Steiner, S. (2000). Proteomics: applications in basic and applied biology. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 11, 408–412.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chen, L. & Vitkup, D. (2007). Distribution of orphan metabolic activities. Trends in Biotechnology 25, 343–348.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dufrene, Y. F. (2002). Atomic force microscopy, a powerful tool in microbiology. Journal of Bacteriology 184, 5205–5213.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whitfield, E. J., Pruess, M. & Apweiler, R. (2006). Bioinformatics database infrastructure for biotechnology research. Journal of Biotechnology 124, 629–639.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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