Planctomycetes: Cell Structure, Origins and Biology

ISBN-13: 9781627035019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 286 str.

John A. Fuerst

Opis

This book introduces Planctomycetes bacteria and deals in detail with their unusual structure, physiology, genomics and evolutionary significance. It is a definitive summary of recent knowledge of this important distinctive group of bacteria, microorganisms which challenge our very concept of the bacterium. Planctomycetes, and their relatives within the PVC superphylum of domain Bacteria, including verrucomicrobia and chlamydia, challenge our classical concept of the bacterium and its modes of life and provide new experimental models for exploring evolutionary cell biology and the full diversity of how living cells can be organized internally. Unique among bacteria, they include species possessing cells with intracellular membrane-bounded compartments and a peptidoglycan-less cell wall, and bacteria such as the anammox organisms performing unique anaerobic ammonium oxidation significant for global nitrogen cycle.

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"... Reichhaltig illustriert und wissenschaftlich auf hohem Niveau erfordert die Lektüre fundierte Kenntnisse der Mikrobiologie. Es empfiehlt sich daher für fortgeschrittene Studenten ... ist das Buch auch für Wissenschaftler interessant ..." (Werner Liesack, in: BIO Spektrum, November/2013, Vol. 19, Issue 7)

Spis treści

1. History, Classification and Cultivation of the Planctomycetes

Cheryl Jenkins and James T. Staley

 

2. Cell Compartmentalization and Endocytosis in Planctomycetes: Structure and Function in Complex Bacteria

John A. Fuerst, Richard I. Webb, and Evgeny Sagulenko

 

3. Structural Aspects of MC Proteins of PVC Superphylum Members

Damien P. Devos

 

4. Cell Biology of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidizing Bacteria:Unique Prokaryotes with an Energy Conserving Intracellular Compartment

 Sarah Neumann, Muriel C.F. van Teeseling and Laura van Niftrik

 

5. Acidophilic Planctomycetes: Expanding the Horizons of New Planctomycete Diversity

Svetlana N. Dedysh and Irina S. Kulichevskaya

 

6. Towards the Development of Genetic Tools for Planctomycetes

Mareike Jogler and Christian Jogler

 

7. Genomics and Bioinformatics of the PVC Superphylum

Olga K. Kamneva, Daniel H. Haft, Stormy Knight, David A. Liberles, and Naomi L. Ward

 

8. The Distribution and Evolution of C1 Transfer Enzymes and Evolution of the Planctomycetes

Ludmila Chistoserdova

 

9. Unusual Members of the PVC Superphylum: The Methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia Genus “Methylacidiphilum”

Christine E. Sharp, Huub J.M. Op den Camp, Ivica Tamas, and Peter F. Dunfield

 

10. Phyla Related to Planctomycetes: Members of Phylum Chlamydiae and their Implications for Planctomycetes Cell Biology

Claire Bertelli and Gilbert Greub

 

11. Planctomycetes – their Evolutionary Implications for Models of the Origins of Eukaryotes and the Eukaryote Nucleus

John A Fuerst  and Evgeny Sagulenko

 

12. A Final Word - The Future of Planctomycetology  and Related Studies

John A. Fuerst

 

Blurb

Planctomycetes, and their relatives within the PVC superphylum of domain Bacteria,  including verrucomicrobia and chlamydia,  challenge our classical concept of the bacterium and its modes of life and provide new experimental models for exploring evolutionary cell biology and the full diversity of how living cells can be organized internally. Unique among Bacteria they include species possessing cells with intracellular membrane-bounded compartments and a peptidoglycan-less cell wall, and bacteria such as the anammox organisms performing unique anaerobic ammonium oxidation significant for global nitrogen cycle. The book introduces these fascinating and important bacteria and deals in detail with their unusual structure, physiology, genomics and evolutionary significance.  It is a definitive summary of our recent knowledge of this important distinctive group of bacteria, microorganisms which challenge our very concept of the bacterium.