Micro-organisms and Earth Systems

Micro-organisms and Earth Systems (Society for General Microbiology Symposia)
by Hilary Lappin-Scott (Author), Geoff Gadd (Editor), Kirk Semple (Editor)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 388 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press (November 14, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0521862221

Book Description
There is growing awareness that important environmental transformations are catalysed, mediated and influenced by microorganisms, and geomicrobiology can be defined as the influence of microorganisms on geologic processes. This is probably the most rapidly growing area of microbiology at present, combining environmental and molecular microbiology together with significant areas of mineralogy, geochemistry and hydrology. This volume focuses on the function of microorganisms in the environment and their influence on 'global' processes. It will include state-of-the art approaches to visualisation, culture and identification, community interactions and gene transfer, and diversity studies in relation to key processes. This overview for researchers and graduate students will represent environmental microbiology in its broadest sense and help to promote exciting collaborations between microbiologists and those in complementary physical and chemical disciplines.

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Immunodominance: The Choice of the Immune System

Immunodominance: The Choice of the Immune System
by Jeffrey A. Frelinger (Editor)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 314 pages
* Publisher: Wiley-VCH (March 6, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 3527312749

Book Description
This very first handbook on the topic summarizes the current concepts and brings together in one volume the critical arguments concerning the mechanisms relevant to immunodominance. In invited chapters written by the leaders in the field, the mechanisms whereby the immune system chooses the parts of a recognized pathogen in order to start the immune response are explained and the variety of biologic processes are identified that contribute to that choice.
From the contents:
* Mechanics of antigen processing
* Proteosome specificity and immuno-proteosomes
* Effect of the T cell repertoire on dominance
* Effects of pathogens on the immune response

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