The Target of Penicillin

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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 ENDOGENOUS INHIBITOR OF THE LYTIC ENZYMES IN ESCHERICHIA COLI / Höltje, Joachim-Volker -- AUTOLYSIS OF ESCHERICHIA COLI INDUCTION AND CONTROL / van Heijenoort, Jean / Leduc, Mireille / Heijenoort, Yveline van / Kasra, Rouha / Fréhel, Claude -- EXPRESSION OF ØX174 LYSIS GENE CLONED INTO DIFFERENT PLASMIDS / Henrich, Bernhard / Lubitz, Werner / Plapp, Roland -- LOCALISATION OF THE BACTERIOPHAGE ØX1.74 LYSIS GENE PRODUCT IN THE CELL ENVELOPE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI / Bläsi, U. / Geisen, R. / Lubitzt, W. / Henrich, B. / Plapp, R. -- INDUCTION OF CELL LYSIS BY MECILLINAM PLUS NOCARDICIN A: ISOLATION AND PROPERTIES OF A TOLERANT MUTANT / Berenguer, José / Pedro, Miguel A. de / Vázquez, David -- INCREASED WALL AUTOLYSIS AND DECREASED PEPTIDOGLYCAN CROSSLINKING IN METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS GROWN IN THE PRESENCE OF METHICILLIN / Wilkinson, Brian J. / Qoronfleh, M. Walid -- MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THERMOSENSITIVE LYSIS MUTANTS OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS / Brandt, Cyrille / Karamata, Dimitri -- CHARACTERISTICS OF TOLERANT GROUP A STREPTOCOCCI / Gutmann, Laurent / Billot-Klein, Danielle / Williamson, Russell -- CELL WALL METABOLISM IN LYT-MUTANTS OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS / Meyer, P.D. / Wouters, J.T.M. -- RESTORATION OF PENICILLIN-DAMAGED CELL WALLS BY DE NOVO MUREIN SYNTHESIS AND SUCCESSIVE MUREIN DEGRADATION IN STAPHYLOCOCCI, REVEALING A HITHERTO UNKNOWN MECHANISM OF PENICILLIN ACTION: BLOCKAGE OF AUTOLYTIC WALL PROCESSES BY PENICILLIN / Giesbrecht, Peter / Morioka, Hiroyuki / Krüger, Dominique / Kersten, Thomas / Wecke, Jörg -- ß-LACTAM ANTIBIOTICS DO NOT TRIGGER THE ACTIVITIES OF AUTOLYSINS IN ETHER PERMEABILIZED ESCHERICHIA COLI / Raible, Angelika / Pelzer, Helmut -- O-ACETYLATION AND HYDROLASES OF GONOCOCCAL PEPTIDOGLYCAN / Perkins, Harold R. / Chapman, Stephen J. / Blundell, J. Keith -- ACETYLATION IN DIFFERENT PHASES OF GROWTH OF STAPHYLOCOCCI AND THEIR RELATION TO CELL WALL DEGRADABILITY BY LYSOZYME / Johannsen, Lars / Labischinski, Harald / Burghaus, Petra / Giesbrech, Peter -- EFFECT OF PENICILLIN"AND CHLORAMPHENICOL-TREATMENT ON THE MUREIN IN STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE : ALTERATION IN STRUCTURE AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MUREIN HYDROLASES / Nöthling, Roswitha / Hakenbeck, Regine / Johannsen, Lars -- MICROCALORIMETRIC AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC INVESTIGATION ON STAPHYLOCOCCI BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT WITH PENICILLIN AND CHLORAMPHENICOL AND THEIR COMBINATIONS / Krüger, Dominique / Giesbrecht, Peter -- CORRELATION OF CELL WALL TURNOVER AND AUTOLYTIC ACTIVITY IN FLA AND SUPERMOTILE MUTANTS OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS / Pooley, Harold M. / Karamata, Dimitri -- B. SUBTILIS W23/168 RECOMBINANTS WITH HYBRID CELL WALLS AND PHAGE RESISTANCE PATTERNS / Monod, Michel / Pooley, Harold / Karamata, Dimitri -- PART IV. BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND MEDICAL ASPECTS OF MUREIN -- IMMUNOMODULATING PROPERTIES OE NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC MUROPEPTIDES / Lederer, Edgar -- THE IMMUNOCHEMISTRY OF PEPTIDOGLYCAN / Seidl, Peter H. / Franken, Norbert / Schleifer, Karl H. -- A NEW MUREIN HYDROLASE IN HUMAN SERUM / Mollner, Stefan / Braun, Volkmar -- LYSOZYME-RESISTANT Q-ACETYLATED PEPTIDOGLYCAN OF NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE : STRAIN VARIATION, RESISTANCE TO HUMAN PEPTIDOGLYCAN HYDROLASES, AND PATHOBIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES / Rosenthal, Raoul S. / Swim, Scott C. / Folkening, W. Joseph / Petersen, Bruce H. / Fouts, Rebecca L. / Phadke, Kalindi -- THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT ANTIBIOTICS ON THE DEGREE OF O-ACETYLATION OF STAPHYLOCOCCAL CELL WALLS / Burghaus, Petra / Johannsen, Lars / Naumann, Dieter / Labischinski, Harald / Bradaczek, Hans / Giesbrecht, Peter -- CELL WALL DEGRADATION OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS BY AUTOLYSINS AND LYSOZYME / Blümel, Peter / Reinicke, Bernhard / Lahav, Meir / Giesbrecht, Peter -- CELL WALL DEGRADATION OF ANTIBIOTIC-TREATED STAPHYLOCOCCI UNDER PHAGOCYTE-SPECIFIC CONDITIONS: Distinction between Penicillin-Induced Lytic Effects and Wall Alterations Caused by Anticoagulants / Wecke, Jörg / Lahav, Meir / Ginsburg, Isaac / Kwa, Elli / Giesbrecht, …