Overview
- Provides an extensive overview on how lipids are formed, assembled, and engaged to generate biological membranes
- Chapters are written in an informative style, are well illustrated and interesting to read for the newcomer as well as the senior scientist in the field
- Functional aspects of lipids, lipid residues and membranes in microbes are elaborated in detail
- Biosynthesis pathways for the different microbial lipid classes provide a unique compendium of lipid biology in the living world
- Readers obtain a profound understanding of lipid and membrane formation, function and remodeling
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology (HHLM)
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Table of contents(46 entries)
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Biochemistry of Biogenesis of Fatty Acids and Lipids
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Editors and Affiliations
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Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Otto Geiger
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biogenesis of Fatty Acids, Lipids and Membranes
Editors: Otto Geiger
Series Title: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50430-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50429-2Published: 29 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50430-8Published: 08 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 886
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 115 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Applied Microbiology, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Biochemistry, general, Microbial Ecology