Complex Intracellular Structures in Prokaryotes

ISBN-13: 9783540325246 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 379 str.

Jessup M. Shively

Opis

The new series "Microbiology Monographs" begins with two volumes on intracellular components in prokaryotes. In this second volume, "Complex Intracellular Structures in Prokaryotes," the components, labeled complex intracellular structures, encompass a multitude of important cellular functions. Continuing and newly initiated research will provide a clearer understanding of the complex intracellular structures known at present and will bring to light surprising new ones as well.

Spis treści

Complex Intracellular Structures in Prokaryotes.- Prokaryote Complex Intracellular Structures: Descriptions and Discoveries.- Proteasomes and Other Nanocompartmentalized Proteases of Archaea.- Assembly and Disassembly of Phycobilisomes.- Chlorosomes: Antenna Organelles in Photosynthetic Green Bacteria.- Gas Vesicles of Archaea and Bacteria.- Carboxysomes and Carboxysome-like Inclusions.- Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bacteria.- Structure, Function and Formation of Bacterial Intracytoplasmic Membranes.- Membrane-bounded Nucleoids and Pirellulosomes of Planctomycetes.- Anammoxosomes of Anaerobic Ammonium-oxidizing Planctomycetes.- The Enigmatic Cytoarchitecture of Epulopiscium spp..- Additional Complex Intracellular Structures.- Cytoskeletal Elements in Prokaryotes.- Cryo-electron Tomography Reveals the Architecture of a Bacterial Cytoskeleton.- Organization and Assembly of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae Attachment Organelle.- The Junctional Pore Complex: Molecular Motor of Microbial Motility.- Type III Secretion Systems: Bacterial Injection Devices for Microbe–Host Interactions.- Gas Vesicles in Actinomycetes: Not Simply a Case of Flotation in Water-Logged Soil.- Bacterial Endosymbionts in Prokaryotes.