Microbial Metabolism and the Carbon Cycle

Part 1 Symposium perspective: microbial catabolism and the carbon cycle - a perspective, Stanley Dagley; pathways to understanding, Peter J.Chapman; those were the days - an affectionate retrospect, Edwin A.Dawes. Part 2 Microbial catabolism: microbial catabolism of aromatic hydrocarbons and the carbon cycle, David T.Gibson; natural puzzles - alicyclic rings and things, Peter Trudgill; more about phthalates, Douglas W.Ribbons; aromatic metabolism by mycelial organisms - actinomycete and fungal strategies, Ronald B.Cain. Part 3 Anaerobic microbial metabolism: degradative metabolism of aromatic compounds in anaerobic environments, W.Charles Evans; anaerobic growth of bacteria on benzoate under denitrifying conditions, George Hegeman; procedures for investigation of the role of inorganic polyphosphates in metabolism, Harland G.Wood et al; fermentative degradation of aromatic compounds, Bernhard Schink and Andreas Tschech; enzymes, coenzymes, and intermediates of methanogenesis from carbon dioxide, Mark I.Donnelly and Ralph S.Wolfe. Part 4 Microbial enzymology: properties of p-cresol methylhydroxylases, David J.Hopper; mechanisms of catecholic dioxygenases, John D.Lipscomb et al; enzyme chemistry and evolution in the B-Ketoadipate pathway, John W.Kozarich; oxygen biochemistry at the surface of the skin, Karin U.Schallreuter and John M.Wood. Part 5 Microbial genetics: the pseudomonas genome - its analysis and organization, B.W.Holloway; organization of and relationships between catabolic genes of TOL plasmids, Peter A.Williams et al; unity and diversity in the degradation of xylenois by pseudomonas spp - a model for the study of microbial evolution, Ronald Bayly et al; genetic studies of methanol metabolism in the facultative methylotroph, methylobacterium organophilum strain XX, Sara Machlin et al; sugar and spice and all that's nice - the contribution of Escherichia Coli to the carbon cycle, Ronald A.Cooper; genetic analysis of carbohydrate metabolism in pseudomonas, Paul V.Phibbs, Jr; expression and complementation of naphthalene dixygenase activity in Escherichia Coli, Burt D.Ensley. Part 6 Potential applications of microbial metabolism: poly-8-hydroxybutyrate - an intriguing biopolymer, Edwin A.Dawes; microbial transformations of toluene to commodity chemicals, S.R.Hagedorn and P.C.Maxwell.