Bacterial Plasma Membrane Dynamics
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 6636
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Interests: microbial evolution; cell enlargement; microinjection of long DNA into bacterial cell; cell-cell communication; genome evolution; microbioinformatics
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Dear colleagues,
The cell cycle mechanism of bacteria has not been studied as much as that of eukaryotic cells. For example, little research has been done on the relationship between DNA replication and plasma membrane biosynthesis. Studies on enlargement of bacterial protoplasts or spheroplasts showed that plasma membrane and outer membrane biosyntheses require metal ions and DNA replication together with generating vacuoles in the cytoplasm. How do those bacterial protoplasts or spheroplasts maintain the electron transport chain system during enlargement of the plasma membrane? This research topic focuses on the bacterial plasma membrane dynamics, which includes its evolution, function, and strucutre.
Dr. Hiromi Nishida
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bacterial cell surface
- S-layer
- outer membrane
- plasma membrane
- DNA replication
- cell enlargement
- cell division
- vacuole formation
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