Bacterial Cell Walls and Membranes

Front Matter ....Pages i-vi
 The Bacterial Cell Wall and Membrane—A Treasure Chest for Antibiotic Targets  (Andreas Kuhn)....Pages 1-5
Front Matter ....Pages 7-7
 Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Transport to the Outer Membrane of Gram-Negative Bacteria  (Paola Sperandeo, Alessandra M. Martorana, Alessandra Polissi)....Pages 9-37
 Lipoproteins: Structure, Function, Biosynthesis  (Volkmar Braun, Klaus Hantke)....Pages 39-77
 Outer Membrane Porins  (Muriel Masi, Mathias Winterhalter, Jean-Marie Pagès)....Pages 79-123
Front Matter ....Pages 125-125
 Peptidoglycan  (Manuel Pazos, Katharina Peters)....Pages 127-168
 The Periplasmic Chaperones Skp and SurA  (Guillaume Mas, Johannes Thoma, Sebastian Hiller)....Pages 169-186
 Bacterial Signal Peptidases  (Mark Paetzel)....Pages 187-219
Front Matter ....Pages 221-221
 Carbohydrate Transport by Group Translocation: The Bacterial Phosphoenolpyruvate: Sugar Phosphotransferase System  (Jean-Marc Jeckelmann, Bernhard Erni)....Pages 223-274
 Secondary Active Transporters  (Patrick D. Bosshart, Dimitrios Fotiadis)....Pages 275-299
 Respiratory Membrane Protein Complexes Convert Chemical Energy  (Valentin Muras, Charlotte Toulouse, Günter Fritz, Julia Steuber)....Pages 301-335
 Inner Membrane Translocases and Insertases  (Jozefien De Geyter, Dries Smets, Spyridoula Karamanou, Anastassios Economou)....Pages 337-366
Front Matter ....Pages 367-367
 The Biosynthesis and Structures of Bacterial Pili  (Magdalena Lukaszczyk, Brajabandhu Pradhan, Han Remaut)....Pages 369-413
Front Matter ....Pages 415-415
 Cell Walls and Membranes of Actinobacteria  (Kathryn C. Rahlwes, Ian L. Sparks, Yasu S. Morita)....Pages 417-469
 Archaeal Cell Walls  (Andreas Klingl, Carolin Pickl, Jennifer Flechsler)....Pages 471-493
Back Matter ....Pages 495-501