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Main Title Manual of industrial microbiology and biotechnology /
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Demain, A. L.
Davies, Julian E.
Atlas, Ronald M.
Publisher ASM Press,
Year Published 1999
OCLC Number 40061289
ISBN 1555811280; 9781555811280
Subjects Industrial microbiology--Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Biotechnology--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Holdings
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EOAR  QR53.M33 1999 Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO 04/06/2001
Edition 2nd ed.
Collation xv, 830 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Notes
Cultures -- Isolation of cultures -- Screening for activities -- Culture preservation and inoculum development -- Small-scale liquid fermentations -- Small-scale solid-state fermentations -- Experimental design for improvement of fermentations -- Experimental design for improvement of fermentations -- Cell and enzyme immobilization -- Strain improvement by nonrecombinant methods -- Culture and analysis using gel microdrops -- Cultivation of hyperthermophilic and extremely thermoacidophilic microorganisms -- Processes -- Anaerobic fermentations -- Continuous culture -- Methods for biocatalysis and biotransformations -- Mammalian cell culture -- Plant cell culture -- Insect cell cultures -- Raw materials selection and medium development for industrial fermentation processes -- Instrumentation of small-scale bioreactors -- Scale-up of microbial processes -- Data analysis -- Downstream processes -- Isolation and identification of small molecules -- Purification and characterization of proteins -- Economics -- Introduction to bioprocess -- Biosafety and biotechnology -- Intellectual property -- Pilot plant -- Quality assurance and quality control -- Contract fermentations -- Genetics -- Genetics of streptomyces -- Genetics of non-streptomyces actinomycetes -- Corynebacteria -- Molecular biology and genetics of bacillus spp. -- Filamentous fungi -- Saccharomyces cerevisiae: genetics and genomics -- Genetics of non-saccharomyces industrial yeasts -- Genetic engineering of nonpathogenic pseudomonas strains as biocatalysts for industrial and environmental processes -- Clostridia -- Recombinant DNA applications -- Bacterial genomics and genome informatics -- Investigations of streptomycetes using tools of recombinant DNA technology -- Recombinant DNA applications in thermophiles -- Zygosaccharomyces rouxii -- Reconstruction of mammalian nuclear receptor function in saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Design and assembly of polycistronic operons in escherichia coli -- In vivo folding of recombinant proteins in escherichia coli -- Expression of G protein-coupled receptors in microorganisms -- Selection of escherichia coli hosts that are optimized for the overexpression of proteins -- Mechanisms of mRNA degradation in bacteria and their implication for stabilization of heterologous transcripts -- Methods for optimizing industrial enzymes by directed evolution -- Metabolic pathway engineering of aromatic compounds -- Polyhydroxyalkanoates: biodegradable polymer -- Environmental biotechnology -- Bioprospecting -- Biological control of foliar pathogens and pests with bacterial biocontrol agents -- Biomarkers and bioreporters to track microbes and monitor their gene expression -- Bioremediation -- Microbial biodiversity: strategies for its recovery -- Deliberate release of recombinant microorganisms -- Biofilms and biocorrosion -- Secondary metabolites -- Metabolic engineering of antibiotic biosynthetic pathways -- Cloning and analysis of regulatory genes involved in streotomycete secondary metabolite biosynthesis -- Genes for the biosynthesis of microbial secondary metabolites -- Antibiotic resistance mechanisms of bacterial pathogens -- Genetics of bacteriocins produced by lactic acid bacteria and their use in novel industrial applications.