The new series "Microbiology Monographs" begins with two volumes on intracellular components in prokaryotes. In this second volume, "Complex Intracellular Structures in Prokaryotes", the components, labeled complex intracellular structures, encompass a multitude of important cellular functions. Continuing and newly initiated research will provide a clearer understanding of the complex intracellular structures known at present and will bring to light surprising new ones as well.

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Complex Intracellular Structures in Prokaryotes.- Prokaryote Complex Intracellular Structures: Descriptions and Discoveries.- Proteasomes and Other Nanocompartmentalized Proteases of Archaea.- Assembly and Disassembly of Phycobilisomes.- Chlorosomes: Antenna Organelles in Photosynthetic Green Bacteria.- Gas Vesicles of Archaea and Bacteria.- Carboxysomes and Carboxysome-like Inclusions.- Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bacteria.- Structure, Function and Formation of Bacterial Intracytoplasmic Membranes.- Membrane-bounded Nucleoids and Pirellulosomes of Planctomycetes.- Anammoxosomes of Anaerobic Ammonium-oxidizing Planctomycetes.- The Enigmatic Cytoarchitecture of Epulopiscium spp..- Additional Complex Intracellular Structures.- Cytoskeletal Elements in Prokaryotes.- Cryo-electron Tomography Reveals the Architecture of a Bacterial Cytoskeleton.- Organization and Assembly of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae Attachment Organelle.- The Junctional Pore Complex: Molecular Motor of Microbial Motility.- Type III Secretion Systems: Bacterial Injection Devices for MicrobeHost Interactions.- Gas Vesicles in Actinomycetes: Not Simply a Case of Flotation in Water-Logged Soil.- Bacterial Endosymbionts in Prokaryotes.