Fungi

- Preface
- List of Contributors
1. Introduction to Fungal Physiology (Graeme M. Walker and Nia A. White)
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Morphology of yeasts and fungi
1.3 Ultrastructure and function of fungal cells
1.4 Fungal nutrition and cellular biosyntheses
1.5 Fungal metabolism
1.6 Fungal growth and reproduction
1.7 Conclusions
1.8 Further reading
1.9 Revision questions
2. Fungal Genetics (Malcolm Whiteway and Catherine Bachewich)
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Life cycles
2.3 Sexual analysis: Regulation of mating
2.4 Unique characteristics of filamentous fungi that are advantageous for genetic analysis
2.5 Genetics as a tool
2.6 Conclusions
2.7 Further reading
2.8 Revision questions
3. Fungal Genetics: A Post-Genomic Perspective (Brendan Curran and Virginia Bugeja)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Genomics
3.3 Transcriptomics and proteomics
3.4 Proteomics
3.5 Systems biology
3.6 Conclusions
3.7 Further reading
3.8 Revision questions
4. Fungal Fermentation Systems and Products (Kevin Kavanagh)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Fungal fermentation systems
4.3 Ethanol production
4.4 Commercial fungal products
4.5 Genetic manipulation of fungi
4.6 Conclusion
4.7 Further reading
4.8 Revision questions
5. Antibiotics, Enzymes and Chemical Commodities from Fungi (Richard A. Murphy and Karina A. Horgan)
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Fungal metabolism
5.3 Antibiotic production
5.4 Pharmacologically active products
5.5 Enzymes
5.6 Chemical commodities
5.7 Yeast extracts
5.8 Enriched yeast
5.9 Further reading
5.10 Revision questions
6. The Biotechnological Exploitation of Heterologous Protein Production in Fungi (Brendan Curran and Virginia Bugeja)
6.1 Fungal biotechnology
6.2 Heterologous protein expression in fungi
6.3 Budding stars
6.4 Methylotrophic yeast species
6.5 Case study - hepatitis B vaccine - a billion dollar heterologous protein from yeast
6.6 Further biotechnological applications of expression technology
6.7 Conclusion
6.8 Further reading
6.9