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Health Consequences of Microbial Interactions with Hydrocarbons, Oils, and Lipids

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Howard Goldfine

    1. Dept. Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Dept. Microbiology, PHILADELPHIA, USA

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  • Highlights lipid-protein interactions important for the development of bacterial and viral infections
  • Discusses the major molecular mechanisms and cellular processes involved in infection processes
  • Illustrates the contribution of lipids and lipid-protein interaction to lipids in the infection process

Part of the book series: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology (HHLM)

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Table of contents (20 entries)

  1. Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils

    • Marta Ribeiro, Manuel Simões

  2. Bacterial Adherence to Plant and Animal Surfaces Via Adhesin-Lipid Interactions

    • Claire Rossi, Hélène Cazzola, Nicola J. Holden, Yannick Rossez

  3. Gastrointestinal Tract: Fat Metabolism in the Colon

    • Lesley Hoyles, R. John Wallace

  4. Gastrointestinal Tract: Intestinal Fatty Acid Metabolism and Implications for Health

    • Lesley Hoyles, R. John Wallace

  5. Gastrointestinal Tract: Microbial Metabolism of Steroids

    • Philippe Gérard

  6. Hydrocarbon Degraders as Pathogens

    • Fernando Rojo, José Luis Martínez

  7. Infection Prevention: Oil- and Lipid-Containing Products in Vaccinology

    • Thomas Ebensen, Barbara Fuchs, Kai Schulze, Carlos Alberto Guzmán

  8. Lipid Rafts in Bacteria: Structure and Function

    • Jonathan D. Nickels, Jacob Hogg, Destini Cordner, John Katsaras

  9. Lipids and Legionella Virulence

    • Otto Geiger

  10. Lipids of Clinically Significant Mycobacteria

    • David E. Minnikin, Patrick J. Brennan

  11. Methanotrophy, Methylotrophy, the Human Body, and Disease

    • Rich Boden

  12. Microbial Oils as Nutraceuticals and Animal Feeds

    • Beatriz Galán, María Santos-Merino, Juan Nogales, Fernando de la Cruz, José L. García

  13. Microbiome Metabolic Potency Towards Plant Bioactives and Consequences for Health Effects

    • Charlotte Grootaert, Tom Van de Wiele

  14. Mycobacterial Lipid Bodies and the Chemosensitivity and Transmission of Tuberculosis

    • Natalie J. Garton, Michael R. Barer

  15. Participation of Bacterial Lipases, Sphingomyelinases, and Phospholipases in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogenesis

    • Lauren A. Hinkel, Matthew J. Wargo

  16. Participation of Bacterial Lipases, Sphingomyelinases, and Phospholipases in Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogenesis

    • Howard Goldfine

  17. Poly-Beta-Hydroxybutyrate (PHB) and Infection Reduction in Farmed Aquatic Animals

    • Joseph Leopoldo Q. Laranja, Peter Bossier

  18. Role of Sphingolipids in Bacterial Infections

    • Katrin Anne Becker, Ryan Boudreau, Aaron Gardner, Aaron P. Seitz, Charles C. Caldwell, Xiang Li et al.

  19. Skin: Cutibacterium (formerly Propionibacterium) acnes and Acne Vulgaris

    • Holger Brüggemann

  20. Tuning Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides by Lipidation

    • Bauke Albada
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About this book

This book is a compilation of the most relevant molecular mechanisms and cellular processes that are involved in the infection processes in relation to lipid metabolism. The authors are international experts in the field of infection biology. Readers will understand infection metabolism and the contribution of lipids and lipid-protein interaction to lipids.
Microbial lipids play an important role in almost all cellular phenomena. Microbial infections also contain an important virulence component in microbial lipids. The secretion of lipid vesicles that contain virulence factors, the assembly of lipid membrane microdomains harboring signal transduction pathways relate to infection process and the number of lipid-protein interactions that are necessary for the internalization of pathogens to host cells are some examples of the importance of lipids and lipid metabolism in the development of infections.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Dept. Microbiology, PHILADELPHIA, USA

    Howard Goldfine

About the editor

Dr. Howard Goldfine received his B.S. degree from the City College of the City University of New York and his PhD. from the University of Chicago. After postdoctoral fellowships with Earl Stadtman at the NIH and Konrad Bloch at Harvard University, he joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Harvard Medical School. In 1968 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine and became Professor Emeritus of Microbiology in 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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