Microbial Metabolism of Metals and Metalloids

This book explains the metabolic processes by which microbes obtain and  control the intracellular availability of their required metal and  metalloid ions. The book also describes how intracellular concentrations  of unwanted metal and metalloid ions successfully are limited. Its  authors additionally provide information about the ways that microbes  derive metabolic energy by changing the charge states of metal and  metalloid ions.

Part one of this book provides an introduction to  microbes, metals and metalloids. It also helps our readers to  understand the chemical constraints for transition metal cation  allocation.

Part two explains the basic processes which microbes  use for metal transport. That section also explains the uses, as well as  the challenges, associated with metal-based antimicrobials.

Part  three gives our readers an understanding that because of microbial  capabilities to process metals and metalloids, the microbes have become  our best tools for accomplishing many jobs. Their applications in  chemical technology include the design of microbial consortia for use in  bioleaching processes that recover metal and metalloid ions from  industrial wastes. Many biological engineering tasks, including the  synthesis of metal nanoparticles and similar metalloid structures, also  are ideally suited for the microbes.

Part four describes unique  attributes associated with the microbiology of these elements,  progressing through the alphabet from antimony and arsenic to zinc.