Advances in Bacterial Paracrystalline Surface Layers

1. A Perspective on S-Layer Research.- 2. Crystallographic Image Processing Applications for S-Layers.- 3. Structures of Paracrystalline Protein Layers from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeobacterium Pyrobaculum.- 4. S-Layers Found on Clinical Isolates.- 5. A Common Structural Principle in the Surface Layers of the Archaeobacteria Haloferax, Halobacterium, and Archaeoglobus.- 6. Crystalline Surface-Layers of the Genus Lactobacillus.- 7. Ultrastructural and Chemical Characterization of a Cyanobacterial S-Layer Involved in Fine-Grain Mineral Formation.- 8. Advances in S-Layer Research of Chroococcal Cyanobacteria.- 9. Predation on Bacteria Possessing S-Layers.- 10. Glycoprotein Nature of Select Bacterial S-Layers.- 11. S-Layer Glycoproteins from Moderately and Extremely Halophilic Archaeobacteria.- 12. The Unique Chemical Formats and Biosynthetic Pathways of Methanogenic Surfaces.- 13. Paracrystalline Layers of Methanospirillum hungatei GP1.- 14. Structural and Functional Analysis of the S-Layer Protein from Bacillus stearothermophilus.- 15. Structure-Function Aspects of the Aeromonas salmonicida S-Layer.- 16. Molecular, Structural and Functional Properties of Aeromonas S-Layers.- 17. Biology of Campylobacter fetus S-Layer Proteins.- 18. Definition of Form and Function for the S-Layer of Caulobacter crescentus.- 19. S-Layers as Immobilization and Affinity Matrices.- 20. Molecular Nanotechnology with S-Layers.- 21. Surface Layers from Bacillus alvei as a Carrier for Streptococcus pneumoniae Conjugate Vaccine.- 22. Scale-up of S-Layer Protein Secretion by Bacillus brevis 47.- 23. Investigation of Lattice Surface Layers by Scanning Probe Microscopy.- 24. Stable Liposomes Formed from Archaeal Ether Lipids.- 25. Structural Analysis of the Paracrystalline Layer of Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis UA809.- 26. Effect of Triton X-100 on the S-Layer of Methanoculleus marisnigri.- 27. Characterization of the S-Layer Glycoproteins of Two Lactobacilli.- 28. Does the S-Layer of Aeromonas salmonicida Exist in More Than One Functional Organizational State?.- 29. Attachment of the S-Layer of Caulobacter crescentus to the Cell Surface.- 30. Linker Mutagenesis of the Caulobacter crescentus S-Layer Protein.- 31. Can S-Layers of Bacillaceae Control the Release of Their Own Exoproteins?.- 32. S-Layer of Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72.- 33. Role of a C-Terminal Domain in the Structure and Surface Anchoring of the Tetragonal S-Layer of Aeromonas hydrophila.- 34. Identification and Characterization of an Aeromonas salmonicida Gene which Affects A-Protein Expression in Escherichia coli.- 35. Localisation and Cloning of Genes Involved in the Export of the A-Protein of Aeromonas salmonicida.- 36. Growth Medium Considerations for the Scale-up of S-Layer Protein Production by Bacillus brevis 47.- 37. Summary Statements.- Contributors.