Adaptation to Varying Substrate Concentrations and Mixtures -- Amphiphilic Lipids, Signaling Molecules and Quorum Sensing -- Bacterial Signal Transduction Processes Based on Acetylation -- Biochemistry of Methylation of DNA -- Biofilm Development at Interfaces between Hydrophobic Organic Compounds and Water -- Biofilm Stress Responses Associated to Aromatic Hydrocarbons -- Bioinformatic, Molecular and Genetic Tools for Exploring Genome-wide Responses to Hydrocarbons -- Causes and Biochemistry of DNA Damage by Alkylation -- Chemotaxis to Hydrocarbons -- Cis-Trans Isomerase of Unsaturated Fatty Acids: An Immediate Bacterial Adaptive Mechanism to Cope with Emerging Membrane Perturbation Caused by Toxic Hydrocarbons -- DNA Methylation in Eukaryotes: Regulation and Function -- DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes: Regulation and Function -- Extrusion Pumps for Hydrocarbons: An Efficient Evolutionary Strategy to Confer Resistance to Hydrocarbons -- Fatty Acids as Mediators of Intercellular Signalling -- Feast: Choking on Acetyl-CoA, the Glyoxylate Shunt, and Acetyl-CoA-Driven Metabolism -- Fungi as Transport Vectors for Contaminants and Contaminant-Degrading Bacteria -- Genetics of Sensing, Accessing, and Exploiting Hydrocarbons -- Genomic Response of Pseudomonas putida to Toluene -- Hydrophobic Modifications of Biomolecules: An Introduction -- Kinetics and Physiology at Vanishingly Small Substrate Concentrations -- Lipidation of Other Biomolecules and Functions -- Lipids as Signalling Molecules in Eukaryotes -- Matrix-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions -- Membrane Adaptations to Low Water Two-Phase Bioprocess Systems -- Membrane Composition and Modifications in Response to Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Gram Negative Bacteria -- Microbiology of Oil Fly Larvae -- Microorganism-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions -- Mutagenic Consequences of Alkylation -- Nitrogen Fixation and Hydrocarbon-Oxidizing Bacteria -- One-Component Systems that Regulate the Expression of Degradation Pathways for Aromatic Compounds -- Problems of Feast or Famine: An Introduction: -- Problems of Hydrophobicity/Bioavailability: An Introduction -- Problems of Solventogenicity, Solvent Tolerance: An Introduction -- Production and Roles of Biosurfactants and Bioemulsifiers in Accessing Hydrophobic Substrates -- Protein Alkylation -- Protein Lipidation in Eukaryotes: Biochemistry and Function -- Protein Lipidation in Prokaryotes: Biochemistry and Function -- Protein Methylation in Bacteria -- Sensing, Signaling and Uptake: An Introduction -- Strategies to Increase Bioavailability and Uptake of Hydrocarbons -- Substrate Transport -- Surface Properties and Cellular Energetics of Bacteria in Response to the Presence of Hydrocarbons -- The Family of Two-Component Systems that Regulate Hydrocarbon Degradation Pathways -- The Potential of Hydrocarbon Chemotaxis to Increase Bioavailability and Biodegradation Efficiency -- Toxicity of Hydrocarbons to Microorganisms -- Transcriptional Regulation of Hydrocarbon Efflux Pump Expression in Bacteria -- Ultrastructural Insights into Microbial Life at the Hydrocarbon:Aqueous Environment Interface -- Uptake and Assimilation of Hydrophobic Substrates by the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica -- Water-Hydrophobic Compound Interactions with the Microbial Cell. .