Overview
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Otto Geiger
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Centro de Ciencias Genomicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Centro de Ciencias Genomicas, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- 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
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Table of contents (46 entries)
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- José L. Aguilar-López, Soledad Funes
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- Adrián F. Alvarez, Dimitris Georgellis
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- Otto Geiger, Jonathan Padilla-Gómez, Isabel M. López-Lara
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- Ryan Kniewel, Olga Revelles Lopez, M. Auxiliadora Prieto
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- Gabriela Gago, Ana Arabolaza, Lautaro Diacovich, Hugo Gramajo
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- Isabel M. López-Lara, María J. Soto
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- Eric R. Moellering, Victoria L. Prince, Roger C. Prince
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- Mikhail Bogdanov, Heidi Vitrac, William Dowhan
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- Otto Geiger, Christian Sohlenkamp, Isabel M. López-Lara
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- Isabel M. López-Lara, Otto Geiger
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- Jordi Pérez-Gil, Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción, Claudia E. Vickers
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- William Dowhan, Mikhail Bogdanov, Eugenia Mileykovskaya, Heidi Vitrac
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- M. J. Soto, N. Calatrava-Morales, I. M. López-Lara
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- Lan Guan, H Ronald Kaback
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- Hélène Barreteau, Didier Blanot, Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx, Thierry Touzé
About this book
Concise chapters, written by experts in the field, cover a wide spectrum of topics on lipid and membrane formation in microbes (Archaea, Bacteria, eukaryotic microbes).All cells are delimited by a lipid membrane, which provides a crucial boundary in any known form of life. Readers will discover significant chapters on microbial lipid-carrying biomolecules and lipid/membrane-associated structures and processes.
Editors and Affiliations
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Centro de Ciencias Genomicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Centro de Ciencias Genomicas, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Otto Geiger
About the editor
Otto Geiger studied biology at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany and after investigating “Quinoproteins and their prosthetic group pyrroloquinoline quinone” at the Institute of Microbiology, he received his doctoral title “summa cum laude” from the same institution in 1987. As a Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he did postdoctoral work in the United States at Harvard Medical School with Eugene P. Kennedy on the “Biosynthesis and function of periplasmic glucans in Gram-negative bacteria”. Subsequently, together with Ben Lugtenberg and Herman Spaink, he investigated the “Biosynthesis of lipo-chitin oligosaccharide signals that cause nodule formation on legume host plants” at the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Leiden University in the Netherlands. From 1993 to 1999 he was a Research Group Leader in the Department of Biotechnology at the Technical University of Berlin, where he habilitated for Biochemistry in 1997. He currently holds the position of Research Professor (Investigador Titular C) at the Center for Genomic Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Cuernavaca) which he joined in 1999. From 2002 to 2006 he was an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Geiger’s group discovered the phosphatidylcholine synthase pathway which constitutes a major route for phosphatidylcholine formation in bacteria as well as the biosynthesis pathway for ornithine-containing lipids which are widespread bioactive lipids encountered in bacterial membranes. Recently, his group has clarified that environmental bacteria adapt to different types of stress by an extensive remodeling of their membrane lipids.
