Bacterial Cell Walls and Membranes

✍ Scribed by Andreas Kuhn

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 493
Series: Subcellular Biochemistry 92
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the architecture and biosynthesis of bacterial and archaeal cell walls, highlighting the evolution-based similarities in, but also the intriguing differences between the cell walls of Gram-negative bacteria, the Firmicutes and Actinobacteria, and the Archaea. The recent major advances in this field, which have brought to light many new structural and functional details, are presented and discussed. Over the past five years, a number of novel systems, e.g. for lipid, porin and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis have been described. In addition, new structural achievements with periplasmic chaperones have been made, all of which have revealed amazing details on how bacterial cell walls are synthesized. These findings provide an essential basis for future research, e.g. the development of new antibiotics.
The book’s content is the logical continuation of Volume 84 of SCBI (on Prokaryotic Cytoskeletons), and sets the stage for upcoming volumes on Protein Complexes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vi
The Bacterial Cell Wall and Membrane—A Treasure Chest for Antibiotic Targets (Andreas Kuhn)....Pages 1-5
Front Matter ....Pages 7-7
Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Transport to the Outer Membrane of Gram-Negative Bacteria (Paola Sperandeo, Alessandra M. Martorana, Alessandra Polissi)....Pages 9-37
Lipoproteins: Structure, Function, Biosynthesis (Volkmar Braun, Klaus Hantke)....Pages 39-77
Outer Membrane Porins (Muriel Masi, Mathias Winterhalter, Jean-Marie Pagès)....Pages 79-123
Front Matter ....Pages 125-125
Peptidoglycan (Manuel Pazos, Katharina Peters)....Pages 127-168
The Periplasmic Chaperones Skp and SurA (Guillaume Mas, Johannes Thoma, Sebastian Hiller)....Pages 169-186
Bacterial Signal Peptidases (Mark Paetzel)....Pages 187-219
Front Matter ....Pages 221-221
Carbohydrate Transport by Group Translocation: The Bacterial Phosphoenolpyruvate: Sugar Phosphotransferase System (Jean-Marc Jeckelmann, Bernhard Erni)....Pages 223-274
Secondary Active Transporters (Patrick D. Bosshart, Dimitrios Fotiadis)....Pages 275-299
Respiratory Membrane Protein Complexes Convert Chemical Energy (Valentin Muras, Charlotte Toulouse, Günter Fritz, Julia Steuber)....Pages 301-335
Inner Membrane Translocases and Insertases (Jozefien De Geyter, Dries Smets, Spyridoula Karamanou, Anastassios Economou)....Pages 337-366
Front Matter ....Pages 367-367
The Biosynthesis and Structures of Bacterial Pili (Magdalena Lukaszczyk, Brajabandhu Pradhan, Han Remaut)....Pages 369-413
Front Matter ....Pages 415-415
Cell Walls and Membranes of Actinobacteria (Kathryn C. Rahlwes, Ian L. Sparks, Yasu S. Morita)....Pages 417-469
Archaeal Cell Walls (Andreas Klingl, Carolin Pickl, Jennifer Flechsler)....Pages 471-493
Back Matter ....Pages 495-501

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Bacteriology

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