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About this book
During the last decade a wealth of new data has arisen from the use of new fluorescent labelling techniques and the sequencing of whole microbial genomes. One important conclusion from these data is that bacterial cells are much more structured than previously thought. The wall and the outer membrane contain topological domains, some proteins localize or move in specific patterns inside the cells, and some genes appear clustered in the chromosome and form conserved evolutionary units. Many of these structures are related to the cell cycle and to the process of cell morphogenesis, two processes that are themselves related to each other. From these observations the dcw gene cluster appears as a phylogenetic trait that is mainly conserved in bacilli. Molecules in Time and Space reviews the data on the formation of subcellular patterns or structures in bacteria, presents observations and hypotheses on the establishment and the maintenance of cell shape, and on the organization of genetic information in the chromosome.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecules in Time and Space
Book Subtitle: Bacterial Shape, Division and Phylogeny
Editors: Miguel Vicente, Javier Tamames, Alfonso Valencia, Jesús Mingorance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b113362
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48578-7Published: 02 July 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7937-0Published: 23 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48579-4Published: 08 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 275
Topics: Bacteriology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, general, Microbial Genetics and Genomics