Ebook: Advances in Bacterial Paracrystalline Surface Layers

This book is a compilation of the research which was presented during the NATO-Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled "Advances in Bacterial Paracrystalline Surface Layers" held in London, Ontario, Canada during September 27 to 30, 1992. The organizing committee consisted of the two Workshop directors, S. F. Kaval and T. J. Beveridge, and H. König, U. B. Sleytr and T. J. Trust; their summary statements about the significance and success of the NATO-ARWare in Chapter 37 of this book. This was the third international workshop on bacterial S-layers and it demonstrated unequivocally how rapidly research is progressing. The Workshop was made possible by financial support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC), the Natural Seiences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network (CBDN) which is a Canadian National Centre of Excellence (NCE). We are very grateful for the support from all of these agencies since their financial aid made it possible to bring to London, Canada a truly international group of S-layer experts. We encouraged the attendance and participation of graduate fellows and research associates, and their presentations students, postdoctoral was an intense three constitute the "Poster" section of this book. The NATO-ARW day workshop held at a delightful secluded location (Spencer Hall) so that the delegates had both formal and informal occasions to interact and evolve new ideas.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Perspective on S-Layer Research....Pages 3-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Crystallographic Image Processing Applications for S-Layers....Pages 13-21
S-Layers Found on Clinical Isolates....Pages 23-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-43
Crystalline Surface-Layers of the Genus Lactobacillus....Pages 45-54
Ultrastructural and Chemical Characterization of a Cyanobacterial S-Layer Involved in Fine-Grain Mineral Formation....Pages 55-55
Advances in S-Layer Research of Chroococcal Cyanobacteria....Pages 57-65
Predation on Bacteria Possessing S-Layers....Pages 67-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-84
Glycoprotein Nature of Select Bacterial S-Layers....Pages 85-92
S-Layer Glycoproteins from Moderately and Extremely Halophilic Archaeobacteria....Pages 93-93
The Unique Chemical Formats and Biosynthetic Pathways of Methanogenic Surfaces....Pages 95-107
Paracrystalline Layers of Methanospirillum hungatei GP1....Pages 109-117
Structure — Function Aspects of the Aeromonas salmonicida S-Layer....Pages 119-128
Molecular, Structural and Functional Properties of Aeromonas S-Layers....Pages 129-142
Biology of Campylobacter fetus S-Layer Proteins....Pages 143-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-158
S-Layers as Immobilization and Affinity Matrices....Pages 159-171
Molecular Nanotechnology with S-Layers....Pages 173-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-192
Surface Layers from Bacillus alvei as a Carrier for a Streptococcus pneumoniae Conjugate Vaccine....Pages 193-193
Scale-up of S-Layer Protein Secretion by Bacillus brevis 47....Pages 195-204
Investigation of Lattice Surface Layers by Scanning Probe Microscopy....Pages 205-218
Stable Liposomes Formed from Archaeal Ether Lipids....Pages 193-193
Front Matter....Pages 219-233
Structural Analysis of the Paracrystalline Layer of Campylobacter fetus Subsp. Venerealis UA809....Pages 235-241
Effect of Triton X-100 on the S-Layer of Methanoculleus marisnigri....Pages 243-256
Characterization of the S-Layer Glycoproteins of Two Lactobacilli....Pages 257-268
Does the S-Layer of Aeromonas salmonicida Exist in More Than One Functional Organizational State?....Pages 269-269
Attachment of the S-Layer of Caulobacter crescentus to the Cell Surface....Pages 271-275
Linker Mutagenesis of the Caulobacter crescentus S-Layer Protein....Pages 277-279
Can S-Layers of Bacillaceae Control the Release of Their Own Exoproteins ?....Pages 281-284
S-Layer of Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72....Pages 285-288
Growth Medium Considerations for the Scale-Up of S-Layer Protein Production by Bacillus brevis 47....Pages 289-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-296
Summary Statements....Pages 297-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-305
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