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Bacterial Cell Walls and Membranes

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Editors:
  1. Andreas Kuhn

    1. Inst. of Microbiology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

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  • Offers a cutting-edge overview, comparing Gram+, Gram-, and Archaea cell walls
  • Provides novel insights into biosynthetic pathways of lipids, lipopolysaccharides, membrane proteins, transport, and assembly
  • Describes the molecular mechanisms and structural details of all currently known systems operating in prokaryotic cell walls
  • Summarizes the key lessons of each chapter with tutorials

Part of the book series: Subcellular Biochemistry (SCBI, volume 92)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. The Bacterial Cell Wall and Membrane—A Treasure Chest for Antibiotic Targets

    • Andreas Kuhn
    Pages 1-5

  3. Outer Membranes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Transport to the Outer Membrane of Gram-Negative Bacteria

      • Paola Sperandeo, Alessandra M. Martorana, Alessandra Polissi
      Pages 9-37

    3. Lipoproteins: Structure, Function, Biosynthesis

      • Volkmar Braun, Klaus Hantke
      Pages 39-77

    4. Outer Membrane Porins

      • Muriel Masi, Mathias Winterhalter, Jean-Marie Pagès
      Pages 79-123

  4. The Periplasm

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Peptidoglycan

      • Manuel Pazos, Katharina Peters
      Pages 127-168

    3. The Periplasmic Chaperones Skp and SurA

      • Guillaume Mas, Johannes Thoma, Sebastian Hiller
      Pages 169-186

    4. Bacterial Signal Peptidases

      • Mark Paetzel
      Pages 187-219

  5. Inner Membrane

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Carbohydrate Transport by Group Translocation: The Bacterial Phosphoenolpyruvate: Sugar Phosphotransferase System

      • Jean-Marc Jeckelmann, Bernhard Erni
      Pages 223-274

    3. Secondary Active Transporters

      • Patrick D. Bosshart, Dimitrios Fotiadis
      Pages 275-299

    4. Respiratory Membrane Protein Complexes Convert Chemical Energy

      • Valentin Muras, Charlotte Toulouse, Günter Fritz, Julia Steuber
      Pages 301-335

    5. Inner Membrane Translocases and Insertases

      • Jozefien De Geyter, Dries Smets, Spyridoula Karamanou, Anastassios Economou
      Pages 337-366

  6. Pili

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 367-367
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    2. The Biosynthesis and Structures of Bacterial Pili

      • Magdalena Lukaszczyk, Brajabandhu Pradhan, Han Remaut
      Pages 369-413

  7. Cell Walls of Gram-Positive Bacteria and Archaea

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 415-415
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    2. Cell Walls and Membranes of Actinobacteria

      • Kathryn C. Rahlwes, Ian L. Sparks, Yasu S. Morita
      Pages 417-469

    3. Archaeal Cell Walls

      • Andreas Klingl, Carolin Pickl, Jennifer Flechsler
      Pages 471-493
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About this book

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 setsthe stage for upcoming volumes on Protein Complexes.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. of Microbiology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

    Andreas Kuhn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bacterial Cell Walls and Membranes

  • Editors: Andreas Kuhn

  • Series Title: Subcellular Biochemistry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18768-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18767-5Published: 28 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18770-5Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18768-2Published: 18 June 2019

  • Series ISSN: 0306-0225

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8810

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 501

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Bacteriology

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