Incredible Anaerobes From Physiology to Genomics to Fuels Volume 1125 published April 2008 Editors: Juergen Wiegel Robert J. Maier Michael W. W. Adams Index of Authors description | purchase this volume
Contents Frontmatter Part I. Diversity and Physiology of Various Anaerobes Part II. Acetogens and Homoacetogenic Fermentation Part III. Methanogens and Methanogenesis Part IV. Metal Reductions and Metal Enzymes Part V. Cellulolytic Anaerobes and Their Cellulolytic Enzymes Part VI. Applied Aspects and Fuel Production

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MICHAEL W.W. ADAMS, ROBERT J. MAIER, and JUERGEN WIEGEL
Foreword
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: xi–xiii. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part I. Diversity and Physiology of Various Anaerobes:

ISAAC D. WAGNER and JUERGEN WIEGEL
Diversity of Thermophilic Anaerobes
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 1–43. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NOHA M. MESBAH and JUERGEN WIEGEL
Life at Extreme Limits: The Anaerobic Halophilic Alkalithermophiles
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 44–57. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MICHAEL J. MCINERNEY, CHRISTOPHER G. STRUCHTEMEYER, JESSICA SIEBER, HOUSNA MOUTTAKI, ALFONS J. M. STAMS, BERNHARD SCHINK, LARS ROHLIN, and ROBERT P. GUNSALUS
Physiology, Ecology, Phylogeny, and Genomics of Microorganisms Capable of Syntrophic Metabolism
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 58–72. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

HOLGER BRÜGGEMANN and GERHARD GOTTSCHALK
Comparative Genomics of Clostridia: Link between the Ecological Niche and Cell Surface Properties
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 73–81. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GEORG FUCHS
Anaerobic Metabolism of Aromatic Compounds
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 82–99. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part II. Acetogens and Homoacetogenic Fermentation:

HAROLD L. DRAKE, ANITA S. GößNER, and STEVEN L. DANIEL
Old Acetogens, New Light
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 100–128. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

STEPHEN W. RAGSDALE
Enzymology of the Wood–Ljungdahl Pathway of Acetogenesis
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 129–136. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

VOLKER MÜLLER, FRANK IMKAMP, EVA BIEGEL, SILKE SCHMIDT, and SABRINA DILLING
Discovery of a Ferredoxin:NAD⁺-Oxidoreductase (Rnf) in Acetobacterium woodii: A Novel Potential Coupling Site in Acetogens
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 137–146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part III. Methanogens and Methanogenesis:

JAMES G. FERRY and DANIEL J. LESSNER
Methanogenesis in Marine Sediments
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 147–157. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

RUDOLF K. THAUER and SEIGO SHIMA
Methane as Fuel for Anaerobic Microorganisms
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 158–170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

YUCHEN LIU and WILLIAM B. WHITMAN
Metabolic, Phylogenetic, and Ecological Diversity of the Methanogenic Archaea
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 171–189. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

LAURA L. GROCHOWSKI and ROBERT H. WHITE
Promiscuous Anaerobes: New and Unconventional Metabolism in Methanogenic Archaea
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 190–214. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part IV. Metal Reductions and Metal Enzymes:

JAN R. ANDREESEN and KATHRIN MAKDESSI
Tungsten, the Surprisingly Positively Acting Heavy Metal Element for Prokaryotes
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 215–229. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDWARD FISHER, ASIA M. DAWSON, GANNA POLSHYNA, JOY LISAK, BRYAN CRABLE, ERANDA PERERA, MRUNALNI RANGANATHAN, MIRUNALNI THANGAVELU, PARTHA BASU, and JOHN F. STOLZ
Transformation of Inorganic and Organic Arsenic by Alkaliphilus oremlandii sp. nov. Strain OhILAs
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 230–241. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

STÉPHANE L. BENOIT and ROBERT J. MAIER
Hydrogen and Nickel Metabolism in Helicobacter Species
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 242–251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

FRANCIS E. JENNEY, JR and MICHAEL W. W. ADAMS
Hydrogenases of the Model Hyperthermophiles
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 252–266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part V. Cellulolytic Anaerobes and Their Cellulolytic Enzymes:

ROY H. DOI
Cellulases of Mesophilic Microorganisms: Cellulosome and Noncellulosome Producers
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 267–279. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

HARRY J. FLINT and EDWARD A. BAYER
Plant Cell Wall Breakdown by Anaerobic Microorganisms from the Mammalian Digestive Tract
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 280–288. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

DAVID B. WILSON
Three Microbial Strategies for Plant Cell Wall Degradation
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 289–297. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

VLADIMIR V. ZVERLOV and WOLFGANG H. SCHWARZ
Bacterial Cellulose Hydrolysis in Anaerobic Environmental Subsystems—Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium stercorarium, Thermophilic Plant-fiber Degraders
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 298–307. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

LARS G. LJUNGDAHL
The Cellulase/Hemicellulase System of the Anaerobic Fungus Orpinomyces PC-2 and Aspects of Its Applied Use
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 308–321. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part VI. Applied Aspects and Fuel Production:

AMY L. VANFOSSEN, DERRICK L. LEWIS, JASON D. NICHOLS, and ROBERT M. KELLY
Polysaccharide Degradation and Synthesis by Extremely Thermophilic Anaerobes
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 322–337. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

TAIRO OSHIMA and TOSHIYUKI MORIYA
A Preliminary Analysis of Microbial and Biochemical Properties of High-Temperature Compost
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 338–344. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ALEXANDER GRIGORYAN and GERRIT VOORDOUW
Microbiology to Help Solve Our Energy Needs: Methanogenesis from Oil and the Impact of Nitrate on the Oil-field Sulfur Cycle
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 345–352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PETER DÜRRE
Fermentative Butanol Production: Bulk Chemical and Biofuel
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 353–362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

JOY DORAN PETERSON and LONNIE O. INGRAM
Anaerobic Respiration in Engineered Escherichia coli with an Internal Electron Acceptor to Produce Fuel Ethanol
Ann NY Acad Sci 1125: 363–372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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