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Crystalline Bacterial Cell Surface Layers

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Crystalline surface layers (S-layers) represent an almost universal feature of archaebacterial cell envelopes and can be found in gram-positive and gram-negative eubacterial species from nearly all phylogenetic branches. S-layers consist of a single protein- or glycoprotein species and thus can be considered as one of the most primitive membrane structures developed during evolution. Prokaryotes carrying S-layers are ubiquitously found in every part of the biosphere. This supports the concept of a general supramolecular "porous crystalline surface layer" fulfilling a broad spectrum of functions which are strongly dependent on the particular environmental and ecological conditions. Their structural simplicity makes S-layers a suitable model for analyzing structure-function relationships as well as dynamic aspects of membrane morphogenesis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Zentrum für Ultrastrukturforschung der Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien, Austria

    Uwe B. Sleytr, Paul Messner, Dietmar Pum, Margit Sára

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Crystalline Bacterial Cell Surface Layers

  • Editors: Uwe B. Sleytr, Paul Messner, Dietmar Pum, Margit Sára

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73537-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-73539-4Published: 16 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-73537-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 193

  • Topics: Microbiology, Cell Biology, Medical Microbiology

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