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Author:   Alexander Steinbuchel ,  Yoshiharu Doi
Publisher:   Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Imprint:   Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Dimensions:   Width: 18.60cm , Height: 6.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   2.574kg
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9783527311101

ISBN 10:   3527311106
Pages:   1200
Publication Date:   26 November 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Lignin, Coal, Polyisoprenoids, Polyesters and Polysaccharides.Preface.I. Lignin and Coal.1. Synthesis of Lignin in Transgenic and Mutant Plants (Jeffrey F.D. Dean).2. Biotechnological Applications of Lignin-Degrading Fungi (White-Rot Fungi) (Gary M. Scott, Masood Akhtar).3. Biotechnological Conversion of Coals into Upgraded Products (Horst Meyrahn, Alexander. Steinbuchel).II. Polyisoprenoids.4. Biochemistry of Natural Rubber and Structure of Latex (Dhirayos Wititsuwannakul; Rapepun Wititsuwannakul).5. Biotechnological Processes for Recycling of Rubber Products (Katarina Bredberg, Magdalena Christiansson, Bengt Stenberg, Olle Holst).6. Biotechnological Processes for Desulfurization of Rubber Products (Katarina Bredberg, Magdalena Christiansson, Bengt Stenberg, Olle Holst).III. Polyesters.7. Metabolic Pathways and Engineering of PHA Biosynthesis (Kazunori Taguchi, Seiichi Taguchi, Kumar Sudesh, Akira Maehara, Takeharu Tsuge, Yoshiharu Doi).8. Metabolic Flux Analysis on the Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (Sang Yup Lee, Soon Ho Hong, Si Jae Park, Richard van Wegen, Anton P.J. Middelberg).9. Fermentative Production of Short-chain-length-PHAs (Sang Yup Lee, Si Jae Park).10. Fermentative Production of Medium-chain-length Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) (Ruud A. Weusthuis, Birgit Kessler, Marcia P.M. Dielissen, Berbard Witholt, Gerrit Eggink).11. Biosynthesis and Fermentative Production of Short-chain-length Medium-chain-length-PHAs (Sang Yup Lee, Si Jae Park).12. Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates in Transgenic Plants (Yves Poirier, Kenneth J. Gruys).13. Fermentative Production of Building Blocks for Chemical Synthesis of Polyesters (Sang Yup Lee, Sang Hyun Park, Soon Ho Hong, Young Lee, Seung Hwan Lee).IV. Polysaccharides.14. Bacterial Cellulose (Stanislaw Bielecki, Alina Krystynowicz, Marianna Turkiewicz, Halina Kalinowska).15. Bioemulsans: Surface-active Polysaccharide-containing Complexes (Eugene Rosenberg, Eliora Z. Ron).16. Curdlan (In-Young Lee).17. Succinoglycan (Miroslav Stredansky).18. Alginates from Bacteria (Bernd H.A. Rehm).19. Xanthan (Karin Born, Virginie Langendorff, Patrick Boulenguer).20. Dextran (Timothy D. Leathers).21. Levan (Sang-Ki Rhee, Ki-Bang Song, Chul-Ho Kim, Buem-Seek Park, Eun-Kyung Jang, Ki-Hyo Jang).22. Hyaluronan (Peter Prehm).23. Exopolysaccharides of Lactic Acid Bacteria (Isabel Hallemeersch, Sophie De Baets, Erick J. Vandamme).24. Scleroglucan (Ioannis Giavasis, Linda M. Harvey, Brian McNeil).25. Schizophyllan (Udo Rau).26. Alginates from Algae (Kurt Ingar Draget, Olav Smidsrod, Gudmund Skjak-Brak).Volume 2: Polyamides, Complex Proteinaceous Materials, Miscellaneous Polymers and General Aspects.V. Polyamides and Complex Proteinaceous Materials.27. Cyanophycin (Fred Bernd Oppermann-Sanio, Alexander Steinbuchel).28. Poly-gamma-glutamic Acid (Makoto Ashiuchi, Haruo Misono).29. Modifications of Proteins and Poly (amino acids) by Enzymatic and Chemical Methods (Kousaku Ohkawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto).30. Biology and Technology of Silk Production (Fritz Vollrath, David Knight).31. Fibrous proteins from Recombinant Microorganisms (Stephen R. Fahnestock).32. Spider Silk Proteins from Transgenic Plants (Jurgen. Scheller, Udo Conrad).33. High-toughness Spider Silk Fibers Spun from Soluble Recombinant Silk Produced in Mammalian Cells (Costas N. Karatzas, Nathalie Cretien, Francois Duguay, Annie Bellemare, Jiang Feng Zhou, Andrew Rodenhiser, Shafiul A. Islam, Carl Turcotte, Yue Huang, Anthoula Lazaris).34. Structure, Function, and Evolution of Vicilin and Legumin Seed Storage Proteins (James Martin Dunwell).35. Role of Nucleic Acid and Protein Manipulation Technologies in High-troughput Structural Biology Efforts (David J. Aceti, Paul G. Blommel, Yaeta Endo, Brian G. Fox, Ronnie O. Frederick, Adrian D. Hegeman, Won Bae Jeon, Todd L. Kimball, Jason M. Lee, Craig S. Newman, Francis C. Peterson, Tatsuya Sawasaki, Kory D. Seder, Michael R. Sussman, Eldon L. Ulrich, Russell L. Wrobel, Sandy Thao, Dmitriy A. Vinarov, Brian F. Volkman, Qin Zhao).VI. Miscellaneous Polymers and General Aspects.36. Inorganic Polyphosphates (Gerard J.J. Kortstee, Mark C.M. van Loodsrecht).37. Polythioesters (Tina Lutke-Eversloh, Alexander Steinbuchel).38. Biotechnological Processes for the Production of Monomers for Subsequent Chemical Polymer Synthesis (Sang Yup Lee, Si Jae Park, Young Lee, Seung Hwan Lee)Economic Aspects of Biopolymer Production (Sang Yup Lee, Si Jae Park, Jong Pil Park, Young Lee, Seung Hwan Lee).40. Index.

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... this handbook contains the very best from the field of biotechnologically produced biopolymers, with articles taken directly from Alexander Steinbuchel's successful series. FIZ Karlsruhe, zur Aufnahme in die Datenbank Apollit As complements to the other parts of this series, these two books are the best reference for anyone working on this subject and should not be missing from libraries at universities, research institutes and the industry. Engineering in Life Sciences

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Since 1994 Alexander Steinbuchel has been Full Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Institute for Microbiology at the University of Munster. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Gottingen in 1983. In 1985 he spent one year at the Rockefeller University New York and in 1992 he received the Philip Morris Research Award. Alexander Steinbuchel has over 250 publications to his name and has organized several symposia focusing on biopolymers. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and member on the editorial boards of Microbiology, FEMS Microbiology, Macromolecular Bioscience, Biomacromolecules and Journal of Environmental Polymer Degradation. Yoshiharu Doi is Professor at the Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Director of Polymer Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Institute, Japan. In 1975 he received his PhD in chemical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1970 to 1983 he studied the stereospecific polymerization of alpha-olefins with Ziegler-type catalysts. He also discovered the first example of a living coordination polymerization of propene. Since 1984 he has been studying biosynthesis and material properties of biodegradable polyesters and biobased polymers. His group published 400 original research papers, 180 reviews and 35 book chapters. He is an editorial board member of five international journals and has organized five international conferences.

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