Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Bacterial Spores - Gerald J. Dring - Hardcover - U.S. ed

Contributors. Preface. Spore-related Topics: Dehydration and the Function of Water in the Stability of Biological Macromolecules, F. Franks. Peptidoglycans: Structure, Conformation and Function in Walls and Spore Cortex, H.J. Rogers. Microbial Bioenergetics and Transport, W.A. Hamilton. Biological Roles of Calcium, B.A. Levine. Genetics and Gene Manipulation of Spore Formers: Molecular Cloning of Bacillus Genes and Molecular Cloning in B. subtilis, D.H. Dean. Bacillus subtilis Protoplast Fusion, Nucleoids, and Chromosome Inactivation, P. Schaeffer and L. Hirschbein. The Genetics of Spore Germination in Bacillus subtilis, A. Moir and D.A. Smith. Mutations in Bacillus subtilis 168 Affecting the Inhibition of Spore Germination by a Barbiturate, R. Morse and D.A. Smith. Isolation of Genes in Bacillus subtilis Involved in Spore Outgrowth, E. Ferrari, F. Scoffone, M. Gianni, and A. Galizzi. Biochemistry and Control of Sporulation: Two New Sporulation Loci Affecting Coat Assembly and Late Properties of B. subtilis Spores, H.F. Jenkinson and J. Mandelstam. An Examination of the Dependent-sequence Hypothesis by Two-dimensional Gel Electrophoreisis of Pulse-labelled Proteins from Bacillus subtilus spo Mutants, M.D. Yudkin, H. Boschwitz, and A. Keynan. Possible Role of Polyadenylated RNA in the Regulation of Spore Development in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus polymyxa, J. Szulmajster, P. Kerjan, K. Jayaraman, and S. Murthy. The Role of Highly Phosphorylated Nucleotides in Sporulation, H.J. Rhaese, R. Vetter, and U. Kirschner. Guanosine 5'-Triphosphate Binding Proteins in Bacillus subtilis Cells, L. Vitkovic, K.R. Dhariwal, E. Freese, and D. Goldman. Enhancement of Bacillus subtilis Microcycle Sporulation by S-Adenosylmethionine, M.J. Cloutier, J.H. Hanlin, J.S. Novak, and R.A. Slepecky. Sporogenesis in Streptomyces, C. Hardisson, M.B. Manzanal and A.F. Brana. Spore Resistance and Dormancy: Mechanisms of Heat Resistance, A.D. Warth. Physiological Biophysics of Spores, R.E. Marquis, E.L. Carstensen, G.R. Bender, and S.Z. child. Bacillus subtilis Spores on Spacelab I: Response to Solar UV Radiation in Free Space, G. Horneck, H. Bückner, and G. Reitz. Effect of Ultrasonic Waves on the Heat Resistance of Bacillus stearothermophilus Spores, B. Sanz, P. Palacios, P. Lopez, and J.A. Ordonez. Heat Resistance of PA 3679 (NCIB 8053) and Other Isolates of Clostridium sporogenes, S.J. Alcock and K.L. Brown. Heat Resistance Thermophilic Anaerobe Isolate from Composted Forest Bark, K.L. Brown. Germination and Outgrowth: Protein Degradation During Bacterial Spore Germination, P. Setlow. Activation of Bacillus cereus Spores with Calcium, H.A. Douthit and R.A. Preston. The Kinetics of Bacterial Spore Germination, G.M. Lefebvre and A.F. Antippa. Coat Structure and Morphogenesis of Bacterial Spores in Relation to the Initiation of Spore Germination, H.-Y. Cheung and M.R.W. Brown. Gramicidin S and Spore Germination and Outgrowth, S. Nandi, M. Frangou-Lazaridis, I. Lazaridis, and B. Seddon. Metal Ion Content of Streptomyces Spores: High Calcium Content as a Feature of Streptomyces, J.A. Salas, J.A. Guijarro, and C. Hardisson. Applied Aspects of Spores: Toxigenic Spore Forming Bacteria, P.D. Walker. Modification of Resistance and Dormancy, G.W. Gould. Inactivation of Spores with Chemical Agents, W.M. Waites. Increased Sensitivity of Surviving Bacterial Spores in Irradiated Spices, J. Farkas and E. Andrassy. Heat Inactivation and Injury of Clostridium botulinumDring, Gerald J. is the author of 'Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Bacterial Spores - Gerald J. Dring - Hardcover - U.S. ed' with ISBN 9780122220807 and ISBN 0122220803.