Trends in the Biology of Fermentations for Fuels and Chemicals

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Welcoming Remarks....Pages 1-1
Basic Biology of Microbial Fermentation....Pages 3-17
Cellulases of Fungi....Pages 19-32
Regulatory Controls in Relation to Overproduction of Fungal Cellulases....Pages 33-53
Cellulase Kinetics....Pages 55-83
Microbial Enzymes Attacking Plant Polymeric Materials....Pages 85-88
Cellulases: Diversity Amongst Improved Trichoderma Strains....Pages 89-109
Xylanases: Structure and Function....Pages 111-129
Toward Elucidating the Mechanism of Action of the Ligninolytic Systems in Basidiomycetes....Pages 131-149
Amylases: Enzymatic Mechanisms....Pages 151-182
Fermentation of Plant Polysaccharides: Role of Biochemical Genetics....Pages 183-185
Molecular Genetics and Microbial Fermentations....Pages 187-200
The Biochemical Genetics of Glycolysis in Microbes....Pages 201-215
Mechanisms of Yeast Genetics....Pages 217-242
Perspectives for Genetic Engineering of Hydrocarbon Oxidizing Bacteria....Pages 243-272
Hydrogen Formation by the Biophotolysis of Water Via Glycolate and Formate....Pages 273-277
Hydrogenase Genes....Pages 279-303
Conversion of Reductases to Dehydrogenases by Regulatory Mutations....Pages 305-313
cAMP and Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism....Pages 315-334
Metabolic Compromises Involved in the Growth of Microorganisms in Nutrient-Limited (Chemostat) Environments....Pages 335-356
The Methanogenic Bacteria, Their Ecology and Physiology....Pages 357-374
Anaerobic Fermentations of Cellulose to Methane....Pages 375-395
Some Aspects of Thermophilic and Extreme Thermophilic Anaerobic Microorganisms....Pages 397-419
Formation of Hydrocarbons by Bacteria and Algae....Pages 421-438
Liquid Products — Chairman’s Report....Pages 439-439
Thermophilic Ethanol Fermentations....Pages 441-461
Feasible Improvements of the Butanol Production by Clostridium Acetobutylicum ....Pages 463-471
Acrylate Fermentations....Pages 473-492
Microbial Adaptations to Stress: Some Lessons to be Learned from Aerobes....Pages 493-497
Thermophily....Pages 499-512
End-Product Tolerance and Ethanol....Pages 513-531
The Role of Proline in Osmoregulation in Salmonella Typhimurium and Escherichia Coli ....Pages 533-542
The Effect of D -Glucose and D -Fructose on the Activity of β-Glucosidase in Trichoderma Reesei C30 Cellulase....Pages 543-543
Ethanol Production in Fixed-Film Bioreactors Employing Zymomonas Mobilis ....Pages 544-544
Inducible β-Xyloside Permease as a Constituent of the Xylan-Degrading Enzyme System of the Yeast Cryptococcus Albidus ....Pages 545-545
Induction and Inducers of Endo-1,4,-β-Xylanase in the Yeast Cryptococcus Albidus ....Pages 546-546
Horizontal Fiber Fermenter....Pages 547-548
Methanol and Carbon Monoxide Metabolism of Butyri-Bacterium Methylotrophicum the Marburg Strain....Pages 549-549
Regulation of Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase Isozymes....Pages 550-550
Uni- and Dicarbon Metabolism of Methanosarcina Barkeri Strain Ms in Defined Medium....Pages 551-552
Isolation of Ethanol-Tolerant Mutants of Yeast by Continuous Selection....Pages 553-553
Induction and Regulation of Cellulase Synthesis in Trichoderma Mutants EA 3 867 and N 2 -78....Pages 554-555
Studies on the Production of SCP and 5’-Mononucleotides by Cellulomonas Flavigena and Pseudomonas Putida in Submerged Culture from Paper Pulp....Pages 556-556
Fermentation Science: Basic and Applied Research Needs....Pages 557-574
Back Matter....Pages 575-591