Prokaryotic Structure and Function
Prokaryotic Structure and Function
C. Dow, University of Warwick
J. A. Cole, University of Birmingham
Out of Print
This book evaluates the increasing wealth of knowledge on the regulation of synthesis and assembly of structural components of the bacterial cell. The state of this discipline is now such that it is possible in many cases to trace the exact sequence of events triggered by a change in the physical or chemical environment of a bacterial cell; signalling, gene expression, transport of the gene product to its correct location and assembly into a functional structure. The scope of this volume is broad, ranging from the organisation of the nuclear material itself to the sequence of events leading to differentiation and development; from the synthesis of intracellular storage material to the assembly of specialised photosynthetic membranes, periplasmic electron transfer chains and heat resistant spores. It will therefore provide an authoritative teaching text for students as well as a comprehensive series of reviews of structural aspects of microbial physiology and biochemistry.
- Scope of this volume is broad
- An authorative teaching text for students of cell biology, bacteriology, microbiology etc
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"...of high quality and open to modern concepts..." Cellular and Molecular Biology
Product details
February 1992Hardback
9780521415705
452 pages
237 × 157 × 30 mm
0.858kg
109 b/w illus. 11 tables
Unavailable - out of print February 2006
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Editors' preface
- 1. Evolution and basic features of gene and genome structure
- Protein HV and bacterial DNA supercoiling
- 2. Replication and segregation: the replicon hypothesis
- 3. Storage polymers in prokaryotes
- 4. Genetics of bacterial cell division
- 5. Comparison of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell cycles
- 6. Envelope growth in Escherichia coli - spatial and temporal organisation
- 7. Superfamilies of bacterial transport systems with nucleotide binding components
- 8. Intracytoplasmic membranes in bacterial cells: organisation, function and biosynthesis
- 9. Compartmentalised gene expression during Bacillus subtilis sporulation
- 10. Establishment or forespore-specific gene expression during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis
- 11. The Periplasm
- 12. Multicellularity in cyanobacteria
- 13. Cell–cell interactions controlling fruiting body development of Myxococcus xanthus
- 14. Differentiation in actinomycetes.
