The Target of Penicillin : The Murein Sacculus of Bacterial Cell Walls Architecture and Growth. Proceedings International FEMS Symposium Berlin (West), Germany, March 13-18, 1983

Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS AND PARTICIPANTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BACTERIAL CELL WALL - STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION / Salton, Milton R. J. -- PART I. PRIMARY AND THREE DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF MUREIN -- PRIMARY STRUCTURES OF MUREIN AND PSEUDOMUREIN / Schleifer, Karl Heinz / Kandier, Otto -- STRUCTURE OF THE PEPTIDOGLYCAN OF THE CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCYSTIS PCC 6714 / Jürgens, Uwe Johannes / Drews, Gerhart / Weckesser, Jürgen / Naumann, Dieter -- CHARACTERIZATION OF MUROPEPTIDES RELEASED FROM MUREIN OF CAULO-BACTER CRESCENTUS BY ENDO-N-ACETYLMURAMIDASE / Markiewicz, Zdzislaw / Glauner, Bernd / Schwarz, Uli -- THE ANALYSIS OF MUREIN COMPOSITION WITH HIGH-PRESSURE-LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY / Glauner, Bernd / Schwarz, Uli -- THE ANIONIC NATURE AND SOME PERMEABILITY CHARACTERISTICS OF MUREIN / Beveridge, T.J. -- ELECTROCHEMICAL AND MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS IN BACILLUS SPORE AND VEGETATIVE MUREINS / Marquis, Robert E. / Bender, Gary R. / Carstensen, Edwin L. / Child, Sally Z. -- THE STATE OF ORDER OF BACTERIAL PEPTIDOGLYCAN / Labischinski, Harald / Barnickel, Gerhard / Naumann, Dieter -- A THREE DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF THE MUREIN LAYER EXPLAINING ONE STEP OF ITS BIOSYNTHESIS BY SELF-ASSEMBLY / Formanek, Helmut -- COMPUTER AIDED MOLECULAR MODELLING OF THE THREEDIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF BACTERIAL PEPTIDOGLYCAN / Barnickel, Gerhard / Naumann, Dieter / Bradaczek, Hans / Labischinski, Harald / Giesbrecht, Peter -- COMPARISON BETWEEN THE SUGAR CHAIN CONFORMATION IN MUREIN AND PSEUDOMUREIN / Leps, Bernd / ßarnickel, Gerhard / Bradaczek, Hans / Labischinski, Harald -- THE CONFORMATIONAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE PEPTIDE PART OF MUREIN - AN INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY / Naumann, Dieter / Fischer, Erwin / Rönspeck, Wolfgang / Barnickel, Gerhard / Labischinski, Harald / Bradaczek, Hans -- DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF BACTERIAL CELL WALLS PROBED BY IN VIVO 15N NMR / Lapidot, Aviva / Inbar, Livia -- A NOVEL AND RAPID METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING IMPORTANT CELL WALL PARAMETERS: FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY / Naumann, Dieter / Labischinski, Harald / Barnickel, Gerhard / Giesbrecht, Peter -- CALORIMETRIC STUDIES ON THE BINDING OF VANCOMYCIN - LIKE ANTIBIOTICS TO PEPTIDOGLYCAN / Laynez, Jose / Rodriguez-Tébar, Alfredo / Arán, Vicente / Vázquez, David -- PART II. MODELS FOR THE GROWTH OF THE MUREIN SACCULUS -- THE SHAPES OF GRAM-NEGATIVE ORGANISMS: VARI ABLE-T MODELS / Koch, Arthur L. -- MUREIN RING STRICTURE AND BIOSYNTHESIS IN GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA: SOME TENTATIVE CONTEMPLATIONS / Pelzer, Helmut -- REGULATION OF THE INITIA1ICN AND OCMPLETICK OF ENVELOPE GRCWIH SITES IN STREPTOCOCCUS FAECIUM (ATCC 9790) / Higgins, Michael L. / Gibson, Carolyn W. / Daneo-Moore, Lolita -- A NEW MODEL FDR GROWTH OF THE MUREIN SACCULUS / Burman, Lars G. / Park, James T. -- PEPTIDE CROSSBRIDGES IN THE MUREIN OF ESCHERICHIA COLI ARE BROKEN AND REFORMED AS THE BACTERIUM GROWS / Goodell, E. Wm. -- A NOVEL HYPOTHESIS TO EXPLAIN REGULATION OF THE MUREIN SACCULUS SHAPE / Satta, Giuseppe / Canepari, Pietro / Fontana, Roberta -- GENERAL PROPERTIES OF TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE CELL DIVISION MUTANTS OF STREPTOCOCCUS FAECIUM / Canepari, Pietro / Lle , Maria del Mar / Fontana, Roberta / Satta, Giuseppe / Daneo-Moore, Lolita / Shockman, Gerald D. -- PREMATURE DIVISION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI IN THE PRESENCE OF TRIS-EDTA / Nanninga, Nanne / den Blaauwen, Tanneke / Nederlof, Petra M. / de Boer, Piet -- PART III. FUNCTION OF MUREIN HYDROLASES AND CONTROL OF MUREIN DEGRADATION -- MUREIN HYDROLASES - ENZYMES IN SEARCH OF A PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION? / Tomasz, Alexander -- THE AUTOLYTIC SYSTEM OF STREPTOCOCCUS FAECIUM / Shockman, Gerald D. / Kawamura, Takashi / Barrett, John / Dolinger, David -- INTERACTION BETWEEN CHOLINE AND THE N-ACETYL-MURAMYL-L-ALANINEAMIDASE OF STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE / Briese, Thomas / Hakenbeck, Regine -- THE INFLUENCE OF LIPOTEICHOIC ACIDS ON THE AUTOLYTIC ACTIVITY OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS / Fischer, Werner / Koch, Hans Uwe -- COENZYME A-GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE: AN