Advances in Fungal Biotechnology for Industry, Agriculture, and Medicine

Buch | Softcover

445 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4613-4694-4 (ISBN)

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In the past half century, filamentous fungi have grown in commercial importance not only in the food industry but also as sources of pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of infectious and metabolic diseases and of specialty proteins and enzymes used to process foods, fortify detergents, and perform biotransformations. The commercial impact of molds is also measured on a negative scale since some of these organisms are significant as pathogens of crop plants, agents of food spoilage, and sources of toxic and carcinogenic compounds. Recent advances in the molecular genetics of filamentous fungi are finding increased application in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, and enzyme industries, and this trend promises to continue as the genomics of fungi is explored and new techniques to speed genetic manipulation become available.

This volume focuses on the filamentous fungi and highlights the advances of the past decade, both in methodology and in the understanding of genomic organization and regulation of gene and pathway expression.

I. Genetic Technology.- 1. Practical Molecular Taxonomy of Fungi.- Genomics of Filamentous Fungi.- A Molecular Tool Kit for Fungal Biotechnology.- Transformation Mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens.- II. Special (Secondary) Metabolism.- 5. Fungal Polyketide Synthases in the Information Age.- More Functions for Multifunctional Polyketide Synthases.- Peptide Synthesis Without Ribosomes.- Isoprenoids: Gene Clusters and Chemical Puzzles.- III. Enzymes and Green Chemistry.- Heterologous Expression and Protein Secretion in Filamentous Fungi.- Artificial Evolution of Fungal Proteins.- Biocatalysis and Biotransformation.- Organic Acid Production by Filamentous Fungi.- Flavors and Fragrances.- IV. Host-Fungal Interactions.- Human Mycoses: The Role of Molecular Biology.- Molecular Interactions of Phytopathogens and Hosts.- Structural and Functional Genomics of Symbiotic Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.

Zusatzinfo	XXII, 445 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
	Veterinärmedizin
ISBN-10	1-4613-4694-0 / 1461346940
ISBN-13	978-1-4613-4694-4 / 9781461346944
Zustand	Neuware