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- English
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Bacterial Cell Wall
About this book
Studies of the bacterial cell wall emerged as a new field of research in the early 1950s, and has flourished in a multitude of directions. This excellent book provides an integrated collection of contributions forming a fundamental reference for researchers and of general use to teachers, advanced students in the life sciences, and all scientists in bacterial cell wall research.Chapters include topics such as: Peptidoglycan, an essential constituent of bacterial endospores; Teichoic and teichuronic acids, lipoteichoic acids, lipoglycans, neural complex polysaccharides and several specialized proteins are frequently unique wall-associated components of Gram-positive bacteria; Bacterial cells evolving signal transduction pathways; Underlying mechanisms of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Bacterial Cell Wall
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Chapter 1. The bacterial cell envelope—a historical perspective
- Chapter 2. Bacterial peptidoglycan: overview and evolving concepts
- Chapter 3. Biosynthesis of the bacterial peptidoglycan unit
- Chapter 4. Utilization of lipid-linked precursors and the formation of peptidoglycan in the process of cell growth and division: membrane enzymes involved in the final steps of peptidoglycan synthesis and the mechanism of their regulation
- Chapter 5. Molecular biology of bacterial septation
- Chapter 6. Biochemistry of the penicilloyl serine transferases
- Chapter 7. Microbial peptidoglycan (murein) hydrolases
- Chapter 8. Cell wall changes during bacterial endospore formation
- Chapter 9. Teichoic acid synthesis in Bacillus subtilis: genetic organization and biological roles
- Chapter 10. Lipoteichoic acids and lipoglycans
- Chapter 11. Cell-wall-associated proteins in Gram-positive bacteria
- Chapter 12. Molecular organization and structural role of outer membrane macromolecules
- Chapter 13. Biosynthesis and assembly of lipopolysaccharide
- Chapter 14. Lipoproteins, structure, function, biosynthesis and model for protein export
- Chapter 15. Structure-function relationships in porins as derived from a 1.8 Å resolution crystal structure
- Chapter 16. Structures of non-specific diffusion pores from Escherichia coli
- Chapter 17. The porin superfamily: diversity and common features
- Chapter 18. Outer membrane proteins of Escherichia coli: mechanism of sorting and regulation of synthesis
- Chapter 19. Uptake of solutes through bacterial outer membranes
- Chapter 20. Secretion of hemolysin and other proteins out of the Gram-negative bacterial cell
- Chapter 21. Periplasm
- Chapter 22. Transmembrane signal transducing proteins
- Chapter 23. Mechanisms of chromosomal ß-Iactamase induction in Gram-negative bacteria
- Chapter 24. Induction ß-lactamase and low-affinity penicillin binding protein 2' synthesis in Gram-positive bacteria
- Chapter 25. Resistance to ß-lactam antibiotics
- Chapter 26. Resistance to glycopeptide antibiotics
- Chapter 27. Diffusion of inhibitors across the cell wall
- Species Index
- Subject Index