Download or read book Microbial Transport Systems written by Günther Winkelmann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport of molecules across the cell membrane is a fundamental process of all living organisms. It is essential for understanding growth, development, nutrition as well as uptake and excretion of exogenous or synthesized molecules. Microbes respresent general and basic functional systems where many transport processes have been studied on a molecular basis. Knowledge of the microbial transport processes will provide new perspectives to treatments by inhibitors, drugs, antibiotics, vitamins, growth promotion compounds, activators and toxic compunds of various kinds.