Prokaryotic Cell Wall Compounds

1. The Murein Sacculus
Silke Litzinger, Christoph Mayer

2. Occurrence, Structure, Chemistry, Genetics, Morphogenesis, and Functions of S-Layers
Paul Messner, Christina Schäffer, Eva-Maria Egelseer, Uwe B. Sleytr

3. Bacterial Polysaccharide Capsules
David Corbett, Thomas Hudson, Ian S. Roberts

4. Lipopolysaccharides
Alba Silipo, Cristina Castro, Rosa Lanzetta, Michelangelo Parrilli, Antonio Molinaro

5. Structure, Biosynthesis, and Function of Teichoic Acids and Related Cell Wall Glycopolymers in the Gram-positive Cell Envelope
Maren Rautenberg, Thomas Kohler, Guoqing Xia, Emir Kulauzovic, Andreas Peschel

6. Outer Membrane Proteins
Oliver Mirus, Alexander Hahn, Enrico Schleiff

7. Cell Envelopes of Methanogens
Harald Claus, Helmut König

8. The Cell Envelopes of Haloarchaea: Staying in Shape in a World of Salt
Jerry Eichler, Mehtap Abu-Qarn, Zvia Konrad, Hilla Magidovich, Noa Plavner, Sophie Yurist-Doutsch

9. Cell Envelopes of Crenarchaeota and Nanoarchaeota
Reinhard Rachel

10. Immunochemistry of the Cell Walls of Methanogenic Archaea: A View from the Past into the Future
Everly Conway Macario, Alberto J. L. Macario

11. Cell Wall Structure and Pathogenicity
T. A. Oelschlaeger, U. Dobrindt, J. Hacker

12. Cell Wall Targeted Antibiotics
Regine Hakenbeck, Reinhold Brückner, Bernhard Henrich

13. Bacterial Autolysins
Marie-Pierre Chapot-Chartier

14. Prokaryotic Cell–Cell Interaction
Reinhard Wirth

15. Adhesion of Bacteria to Protists
Renate Radek

16. Prokaryotic Cell Wall Components: Structure and Biochemistry
Uwe B. Sleytr, Eva-Maria Egelseer, Nicola Ilk, Paul Messner, Christina Schäffer, Dietmar Pum, Bernhard Schuster

17. Accumulation of Heavy Metals by Micro-organisms: Biomineralization and Nanocluster Formation
Sonja Selenska-Pobell, Mohamed Merroun

Keywords: Life Sciences, Microbiology, Biochemistry, general, Cell Biology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology