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Overview of the diverse roles of bacterial and archaeal cytoskeletons / Linda A. Amos, Jan Löwe -- E. coli cell cycle machinery / Joe Lutkenhaus, Shishen Du -- Cell cycle machinery in Bacillus subtilis / Jeff Errington, Ling Juan Wu -- Cytoskeletal proteins in Caulobacter crescentus: spatial orchestrators of cell cycle progression, development, and cell shape / Kousik Sundararajan, Erin D. Goley -- FtsZ constriction force: curved protofilaments bending membranes / Harold P. Erickson, Masaki Osawa -- Intermediate filaments supporting cell shape and growth in bacteria / Gabriella H. Kelemen -- FtsZ-ring architecture and its control by MinCD / Piotr Szwedziak, Debnath Ghosal -- Bacterial actins / Thierry Izoré, Fusinita van den Ent -- Bacterial nucleoid occlusion: multiple mechanisms for preventing chromosome bisection during cell division / Maria A. Schumacher -- Structure and dynamics of actin-like cytomotive filaments in plasmid segregation / Pananghat Gayathri, Shrikant Harne -- Tubulin-like proteins in prokaryotic DNA positioning / Gero Fink, Christopher H.S. Aylett -- The structure, function and roles of the archaeal ESCRT apparatus / Rachel Y. Samson, Megan J. Dobro, Grant J. Jensen, Stephen D. Bell -- Archaeal actin-family filament systems / Ann-Christin Lindås, Karin Valegård, Thijs J.G. Ettema -- The tubulin superfamily in Archaea / Christopher H.S. Aylett, Iain G. Duggin -- Reconstitution of protein dynamics involved in bacterial cell division / Martin Loose, Katja Zieske, Petra Schwille.

"This book describes the structures and functions of active protein filaments, found in bacteria and archaea, and now known to perform crucial roles in cell division and intra-cellular motility, as well as being essential for controlling cell shape and growth. These roles are possible because the cytoskeletal and cytomotive filaments provide long range order from small subunits. Studies of these filaments are therefore of central importance to understanding prokaryotic cell biology. The wide variation in subunit and polymer structure and its relationship with the range of functions also provide important insights into cell evolution, including the emergence of eukaryotic cells"--Publisher's description.