The mycobacterial cell envelope
By: edited by Mamadou Daffé, Jean-Marc Reyrat.
Contributors: Daffé, Mamadou.; Reyrat, Jean-Marc.
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781555814687
Subjects: Mycobacteria; Bacterial cell walls; Mycobacterium -- cytology; Cell Membrane -- metabolism; Cell Wall -- metabolism; Mycobacterium -- pathogenicity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The global architecture of the mycobacterial cell envelope / Mamadou Daffé; title: Wall ultrastructure and periplasm / Terry J. Beveridge; title: Biosynthesis of the arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex of Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Dean C. Crick and Patrick J. Brennan; title: A comprehensive overview of mycolic acid structure and biosynthesis / Hedia Marrakchi ... [et al.]; title: Cording, cord factors, and trehalose dimycolate / Michael S. Glickman; title: Structure, biosynthesis, and activities of phosphatidyl-myo-Inositol-based lipoglycans / Martine Gilleron ... [et al.]; title: Antibiotics and new inhibitors of the cell wall / Lynn G. Dover ... [et al.]; title: Enigmatic proteins from the surface : the Erp, PE, and PPE protein families / Giovanni Delogu ... [et al.]; title: Mycobacterial porins / Michael Niederweis; title: Iron uptake in mycobacteria / Luis E.N. Quadri; title: The ABC transporter systems / Jean Content and Priska Peirs; title: The MmpL protein family / Madhulika Jain, Eric D. Chow, and Jeffery S. Cox; title: ESAT-6 and the mycobacterial ESX secretion systems / Ida Rosenkrands ... [et al.]; title: Mycobacterial sigma factors and surface biology / Sahadevan Raman ... [et al.]; title: Biosynthesis of mycobacterial lipids by multifunctional polyketide synthases / Vivek T. Natarajan, Debasisa Mohanty, and Rajesh S. Gokhale; title: The constituents of the cell envelope and their impact on the host immune system / Warwick J. Britton and James A. Triccas; title: Biosynthesis and roles of phenolic glycolipids and related molecules in Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Christophe Guilhot, Christian Chalut, and Mamadou Daffé; title: Sulfated metabolites from Mycobacterium tuberculosis : sulfolipid-1 and beyond / Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Michael W. Schelle; title: The mycobacterial heparin-binding hemagglutinin : a virulence factor and antigen useful for diagnostics and vaccine development / Camille Locht ... [et al.]; title: The role of mycobacterial kinases and phosphatases in growth, pathogenesis, and cell wall metabolism / Anil K. Tyagi, Ramandeep Singh, and Vibha Gupta; title: Glycopeptidolipids : a complex pathway for small pleiotropic molecules / Caroline Deshayes ... [et al.]; title: The mycolactones : biologically active polyketides produced by Mycobacterium ulcerans and related aquatic mycobacteria / Timothy P. Stinear and Pamela L.C. Small; title: Epilogue: The envelope : beyond the veil / Jean-Marc Reyrat and Mamadou Daffé.