(eBook) Acetic Acid Bacteria – Ecology and Physiology by Kazunobu Matsushita

This is the PDF eBook version for Acetic Acid Bacteria – Ecology and Physiology by Kazunobu Matsushita, Hirohide Toyama, Naoto Tonouchi, Akiko Okamoto-Kainuma

Table of Contents

1 Systematics of acetic acid bacteria.- 2 Acetic acid bacteria in productions of vinegars and traditional fermented foods.- 3 Acetic acid bacteria in fermented food and beverage ecosystems.- 4 Acetic Acid Bacteria as Plant Growth Promoters.- 5 Acetic acid bacteria as symbionts of insects.- 6 Drosophila-Acetobacter as a model system for understanding animal-microbiota interactions.- 7 Distribution, evolution and physiology of oxidative fermentation.- 8 Physiology of Acetobacter spp.: Involvement of molecular chaperones during acetic acid fermentation.- 9 Physiology of Komagataeibacter spp. during acetic acid fermentation.- 10 Physiology of Acetobacter and Komagataeibacter spp.: Acetic acid resistance mechanism in acetic acid fermentation.- 11 Central carbon metabolism and respiration in Gluconobacter oxydans.- 12 Metabolic features of Acetobacter aceti.- 13 Membrane-bound dehydrogenases of acetic acid bacteria.- 14 Cellulose and other capsular polysaccharides of acetic acid bacteria.- 15 Industrial application of acetic acid bacteria (vitamin C & others).