Prokaryotic Cell Wall Compounds

Part I. Cell Wall Polymers and Structures of Bacteria -- 1. The Murein Sacculus / Silke Litzinger and Christoph Mayer -- 2. Occurrence, Structure, Chemistry, Genetics, Morphogenesis, and Functions of S-Layers / Paul Messner, Christina Sch??ffer, Eva-Maria Egelseer, and Uwe B. Sleytr -- 3. Bacterial Polysaccharide Capsules / David Corbett, Thomas Hudson, and Ian S. Roberts -- 4. Lipopolysaccharides / Alba Silipo, Cristina De Castro, Rosa Lanzetta, Michelangelo Parrilli, and 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, and Andreas Peschel -- 6. Outer Membrane Proteins / Oliver Mirus, Alexander Hahn, and Enrico Schleiff -- Part II. Cell Wall Polymers and Structures of Archaea -- 7. Cell Envelopes of Methanogens / Harald Claus and Helmut K??nig -- 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, and Sophie Yurist-Doutsch -- 9. Cell Envelopes of Crenarchaeota and Nanoarchaeota / Reinhard Rachel -- Part III. Biological Activities -- 10. Immunochemistry of the Cell Walls of Methanogenic Archaea: A View from the Past into the Future / Everly Conway de Macario and Alberto J.L. Macario -- 11. Cell Wall Structure and Pathogenicity / T.A. Oelschlaeger, U. Dobrindt, and J. Hacker -- Part IV. Cell Wall Growth and Inhibition -- 12. Cell Wall Targeted Antibiotics / Regine Hakenbeck, Reinhold Br??ckner, and Bernhard Henrich -- 13. Bacterial Autolysins / Marie-Pierre Chapot-Chartier -- Part V. Cell Wall Interactions -- 14. Prokaryotic Cell-Cell Interaction / Reinhard Wirth -- 15. Adhesion of Bacteria to Protists / Renate Radek -- Part VI. Application of Cell Wall Components -- 16. Prokaryotic Cell Wall Components: Structure and Biochemistry / Uwe B. Sleytr, Eva-Maria Egelseer, Nicola Ilk, Paul Messner, Christina Sch??ffer, Dietmar Pum, and Bernhard Schuster -- 17. Accumulation of Heavy Metals by Micro-organisms: Biomineralization and Nanocluster Formation / Sonja Selenska-Pobell and Mohamed Merroun.