Prokaryotic Cytoskeletons Filamentous Protein Polymers Active in the Cytoplasm of Bacterial and Archaeal Cells /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Löwe, Jan (Editor), Amos, Linda A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Subcellular Biochemistry, 84
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Cytogenetics.; Proteins.; Bacteriology.; Life Sciences.; Protein Science.

This book describes the structures and functions of active protein filaments, found in bacteria and archaea, and now known to perform crucial roles in cell division and intra-cellular motility, as well as being essential for controlling cell shape and growth. These roles are possible because the cyt...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of the diverse roles of bacterial and archaeal cytoskeletons
• E. coli cell cycle machinery
• Cell cycle machinery in Bacillus subtilis
• Cytoskeletal proteins in Caulobacter crescentus
• FtsZ constriction force – curved protofilaments bending membranes
• Intermediate filaments supporting cell shape and growth in bacteria
• Z-ring architecture and its control by MinCD co-polymers
• Bacterial actins
• Bacterial nucleoid occlusion
• Structure and dynamics of actin-like cytomotive filaments in plasmid segregation
• Tubulin-like proteins in prokaryotic DNA positioning
• The structure, function and roles of the archaeal ESCRT apparatus
• Archaeal actin-family filament systems
• The tubulin superfamily in archaea
• Reconstitution of protein dynamics involved in bacterial cell division.