Molecules in Time and Space: Bacterial Shape, Division and Phylogeny - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475779372 ISBN 13: 9781475779370

Verlag: Springer, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

During the last decade a wealth of new data has arisen from the use of new fluorescent labelling techniques and the sequencing of whole microbial genomes. One important conclusion from these data is that bacterial cells are much more structured than previously thought. The wall and the outer membrane contain topological domains, some proteins localize or move in specific patterns inside the cells, and some genes appear clustered in the chromosome and form conserved evolutionary units. Many of these structures are related to the cell cycle and to the process of cell morphogenesis, two processes that are themselves related to each other. From these observations the dcw gene cluster appears as a phylogenetic trait that is mainly conserved in bacilli. Molecules in Time and Space reviews the data on the formation of subcellular patterns or structures in bacteria, presents observations and hypotheses on the establishment and the maintenance of cell shape, and on the organization of genetic information in the chromosome.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1475779372
• ISBN 13: 9781475779370
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Vicente Miguel, Tamames Javier, Valencia Alfonso, Mingorance Jesús
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