Bacterial Cell Walls and Membranes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kuhn, Andreas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Subcellular Biochemistry, 92
• Subjects: Bacteriology.

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 Arch...

Table of Contents:

• The bacterial cell wall and membrane - a treasure chest for antibiotic targets
• Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and transport to the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria
• Lipoproteins: structure, function, biosynthesis
• Outer membrane porins
• Peptidoglycan
• The Periplasmic Chaperones Skp and SurA
• Bacterial signal peptidases
• Carbohydrate Transport by Group Translocation: The Bacterial Phosphoenolpyruvate : Sugar Phosphotransferase System
• Secondary active transporters
• Respiratory membrane protein complexes convert chemical energy
• Inner membrane translocases and insertases
• The biosynthesis and structures of bacterial pili
• Cell Walls and Membranes of Actinobacteria
• Archaeal cell walls.