Recombinant Microbes for Industrial and Agricultural Applications First Edition Imanaka

1. Introduction: Exploitation of Conventional and Industrial Microorganisms

2. Regulation and Safety of Recombinant Microorganisms

3. Contributions of Recombinant Microbes and Their Potential

I. Pharmacologically Active Agents and Health Care

4. Overproduction of Heterologous Proteins in Escherichia coli

5. Extremely Efficient Protein Secretion System in Bacillus brevis

6. Secretory Production of Homologous and Heterologous Proteins by Recombinant Streptomyces: What Has Been Accomplished?

7. Antibiotics Produced by Streptomyces Host-Vector Systems

8. β-Lactam Antibiotics Produced by Genetically Engineered Filamentous Fungi

9. Heterologous Protein Production by Yeast Host-Vector Systems

10. Glutathione and Its Derivatives: Produced by Recombinant Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

11. Recombinant Microbial ADP-Ribosylating Toxins of Bordetella pertussis, Vibiro cholerae, and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: Structure, Function, and Toxoid Vaccine Development

12. Recombinant Antigens as Components of a Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine

13. Escherichia coli Producing Recombinant Antibodies

14. Antibody Produced by Using Escherichia coli Expression Systems

II. Enzyme Production

15. Fundamental Aspects of Secretory Enzyme Production by Recombinant Microbes

16. Escherichia coli Secretion Vector Using the kil Gene

17. Thermostable Enzymes Produced by Recombinant Mesophilic and Thermophilic Bacteria

18. Enzymes Used for Recombinant DNA Technology Produced by Recombinant Microbes

19. Starch-Processing Enzymes Produced by Recombinant Bacteria

20. Starch-Processing Enzymes Produced by Recombinant Yeasts and Fungi

21. Microbial Lipase: Structure and Production

22. Enzyme Production by Recombinant Aspergillus

23. Cellulases, Xylanases, and Their Genes from Bacteria

24. Yeast as Source for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Proteins

25. Improvement of Useful Enzymes by Protein Engineering

III. Production of Food and Beverages

26. Amino Acids: Genetically Engineered Serratia marcescens

27. Host-Vector Systems for Amino Acid-Producing Coryneform Bacteria

28. Fermented Milk Products: Genetic Improvement of Dairy Lactobacilli

29. Vinegar: Genetic Improvement of Acetobacter and Gluconobacter

30. Alcoholic Beverages: Genetic Improvement of Yeasts

31. Fish Growth Hormones: Production and Application of Recombinant Hormones

32. Approaches to Hybridization and Applied Genetics by Protoplast Fusion: Koji-Molds and Mushrooms

33. Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria in Foods by Using Recombinant DNA Techniques

IV. Microbes Used in Agriculture

34. Agrobacterium and Plant Genetic Engineering

35. Basic Analysis of Bacillus subtilis NB22 and Its Application to Biological Control

36. Genetic Engineering on Bacillus thuringiensis Insecticidal Proteins

37. Filamentous Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes: Development of Host-Vector Systems

38. Cyanobacteria and Algae

39. Associative Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in the Rhizosphere of Rice

V. Fuels, Chemicals, and Waste Treatment

40. Strain Improvement of Zymomonas mobilis for Ethanol Production

41. Ethanol Production by Genetically Improved Clostridium

42. Alcohol Production by Genetically Improved Yeast

43. Hydrogen Production by Photosynthetic Bacteria and Microalgae

44. Heterologous Gene Expression in C1 Compound-Utilizing Yeasts

45. Industrial Chemicals: Enzymatic Transformation by Recombinant Microbes

46. Genetically Engineered Microorganisms Exploitation for Biocleaning of Coal: A Countermeasure to Acid Rain

47. Degradation of Recalcitrant Synthetic Chemical Products: Genetic Engineering in Pseudomonads

48. Current Advances in Methane Fermentation