Advances in Bacterial Paracrystalline Surface Layers

✍ Scribed by R. G. E. Murray (auth.), Terry J. Beveridge, Susan F. Koval (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: NATO ASI Series 252
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a compilation of the research which was presented during the NATO-Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled "Advances in Bacterial Paracrystalline Surface Layers" held in London, Ontario, Canada during September 27 to 30, 1992. The organizing committee consisted of the two Workshop directors, S. F. Kaval and T. J. Beveridge, and H. König, U. B. Sleytr and T. J. Trust; their summary statements about the significance and success of the NATO-ARWare in Chapter 37 of this book. This was the third international workshop on bacterial S-layers and it demonstrated unequivocally how rapidly research is progressing. The Workshop was made possible by financial support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC), the Natural Seiences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network (CBDN) which is a Canadian National Centre of Excellence (NCE). We are very grateful for the support from all of these agencies since their financial aid made it possible to bring to London, Canada a truly international group of S-layer experts. We encouraged the attendance and participation of graduate fellows and research associates, and their presentations students, postdoctoral was an intense three constitute the "Poster" section of this book. The NATO-ARW day workshop held at a delightful secluded location (Spencer Hall) so that the delegates had both formal and informal occasions to interact and evolve new ideas.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Perspective on S-Layer Research....Pages 3-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Crystallographic Image Processing Applications for S-Layers....Pages 13-21
Structures of Paracrystalline Protein Layers from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeobacterium Pyrobaculum ....Pages 23-32
S-Layers Found on Clinical Isolates....Pages 33-43
A Common Structural Principle in the Surface Layers of the Archaeobacteria Haloferax, Halobacterium and Archaeoglobus ....Pages 45-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Crystalline Surface-Layers of the Genus Lactobacillus....Pages 57-65
Ultrastructural and Chemical Characterization of a Cyanobacterial S-Layer Involved in Fine-Grain Mineral Formation....Pages 67-75
Advances in S-Layer Research of Chroococcal Cyanobacteria....Pages 77-84
Predation on Bacteria Possessing S-Layers....Pages 85-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Glycoprotein Nature of Select Bacterial S-Layers....Pages 95-107
S-Layer Glycoproteins from Moderately and Extremely Halophilic Archaeobacteria....Pages 109-117
The Unique Chemical Formats and Biosynthetic Pathways of Methanogenic Surfaces....Pages 119-128
Paracrystalline Layers of Methanospirillum hungatei GP1....Pages 129-142
Structural and Functional Analysis of the S-Layer Protein from Bacillus stearothermophilus ....Pages 143-149
Structure — Function Aspects of the Aeromonas salmonicida S-Layer....Pages 151-158
Molecular, Structural and Functional Properties of Aeromonas S-Layers....Pages 159-171
Biology of Campylobacter fetus S-Layer Proteins....Pages 173-180
Definition of form and Function for the S-Layer of Caulobacter crescentus ....Pages 181-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
S-Layers as Immobilization and Affinity Matrices....Pages 195-204
Molecular Nanotechnology with S-Layers....Pages 205-218
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Surface Layers from Bacillus alvei as a Carrier for a Streptococcus pneumoniae Conjugate Vaccine....Pages 219-233
Scale-up of S-Layer Protein Secretion by Bacillus brevis 47....Pages 235-241
Investigation of Lattice Surface Layers by Scanning Probe Microscopy....Pages 243-256
Stable Liposomes Formed from Archaeal Ether Lipids....Pages 257-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Structural Analysis of the Paracrystalline Layer of Campylobacter fetus Subsp. Venerealis UA809....Pages 271-275
Effect of Triton X-100 on the S-Layer of Methanoculleus marisnigri....Pages 277-279
Characterization of the S-Layer Glycoproteins of Two Lactobacilli....Pages 281-284
Does the S-Layer of Aeromonas salmonicida Exist in More Than One Functional Organizational State?....Pages 285-288
Attachment of the S-Layer of Caulobacter crescentus to the Cell Surface....Pages 289-291
Linker Mutagenesis of the Caulobacter crescentus S-Layer Protein....Pages 293-296
Can S-Layers of Bacillaceae Control the Release of Their Own Exoproteins ?....Pages 297-301
S-Layer of Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72....Pages 303-305
Role of a C-Terminal Domain in the Structure and Surface Anchoring of the Tetragonal S-Layer of Aeromonas hydrophila ....Pages 307-310
Identification and Characterization of an Aeromonas salmonicida Gene Which Affects A-Protein Expression in Escherichia coli ....Pages 311-313
Localisation and Cloning of Genes Involved in the Export of the A-Protein of Aeromonas salmonicida ....Pages 315-318
Growth Medium Considerations for the Scale-Up of S-Layer Protein Production by Bacillus brevis 47....Pages 319-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Summary Statements....Pages 323-327
Back Matter....Pages 329-344

✦ Subjects

Biochemistry, general; Biotechnology; Medical Microbiology; Plant Sciences; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology; Microbial Ecology