This book introduces Planctomycetes?bacteria and deals in detail with their unusual structure, physiology, genomics and evolutionary significance. It is a definitive summary of recent knowledge of this important distinctive group of bacteria, microorganisms which challenge our very concept of the bacterium. Planctomycetes, and their relatives within the PVC superphylum of domain Bacteria, including verrucomicrobia and chlamydia, challenge our classical concept of the bacterium and its modes of life and provide new experimental models for exploring evolutionary cell biology and the full diversity of how living cells can be organized internally. Unique among bacteria, they include species possessing cells with intracellular membrane-bounded compartments and a peptidoglycan-less cell wall, and bacteria such as the anammox organisms performing unique anaerobic ammonium oxidation significant for global nitrogen cycle.
Here is a definitive summary of recent knowledge of Planctomycetes, microorganisms which challenge our very concept of the bacterium. This book details their unusual structure, physiology, genomics and evolutionary significance.
1. History, Classification and Cultivation of the Planctomycetes
Cheryl Jenkins and James T. Staley
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2. Cell Compartmentalization and Endocytosis in Planctomycetes: Structure and Function in Complex Bacteria
John A. Fuerst, Richard I. Webb, and Evgeny Sagulenko
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3. Structural Aspects of MC Proteins of PVC Superphylum Members
Damien P. Devos
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4. Cell Biology of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidizing Bacteria:Unique Prokaryotes with an Energy Conserving Intracellular Compartment
?Sarah Neumann, Muriel C.F. van Teeseling and Laura van Niftrik
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5. Acidophilic Planctomycetes: Expanding the Horizons of Newl)
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