Inorganic Polyphosphates Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology
Inorganic polyphosphates - polymers of orthophosphate linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds - have been found in apparently all forms of life, from bacteria, yeasts and fungi to higher plants and animals. These polymers, which had been neglected fo
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Heinz C. Schroder
Werner E.G. Muller (Eds.)
Inorganic Polyphosphates Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology
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Professor Dr. Dr. Heinz C. Schroder Professor Dr. Werner E.G. Miiller Institut fiir Physiologische Chemie Abteilung fiir Angewandte Molekularbiologie Johannes Gutenberg-Universitiit Duesbergweg 6 D-SS099 Mainz Germany
ISBN 978-3-642-63597-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Inorganic polyphosphates / Heinz C. Schriider, Werner E.G. Miiller p. cm.-(Progress in molecular and subcellular biology; 23) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-642-63597-7 ISBN 978-3-642-58444-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-58444-2 1. Polyphosphates-Physiological effect. 2. Polyphosphates-Metabolism. 3. PolyphosphatesBiotechnology. I. Schriider, Heinz C. (Heinz Christoph) II. Mliller, Werner E.G. III. Series. QH506.P76 no. 23 [QP535.Pl] 572-8 s-dc21 [572'.553J This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data Banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permissions for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999 Originally published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York in 1999 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1999
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Preface Amongst the biopolymers found in living organisms, inorganic polyphosphates have been ignored for a long time, although these energy-rich molecules most likely existed on earth a long time before nucleic acids, proteins and polysaccharides appeared during prebiotic evolution. The research on inorganic polyphosphates started in the early 1950s, closely connected with the research on nucleic acids. Several researchers, including J.P. Ebel, F.M. Harold, A. Kornberg, P. Langen, K. Lohmann, M. and O. Szymona, E. Thilo, J.M. Wiame and A. Yoshida, worked on this topic at that time. Moreover, the main enzymes involved in polyphosphate metabolism, the polyphosphate synthetase (Kornberg et al. 1956), the polyphosphate:AMP phosphotransferase (Dirheimer and Ebel 1965), the polyphosphate gl
