Table of Contents

The phylogeny of bacterial shape.- Membranes and prebiotic evolution: compartments, spatial isolation and the origin of life.- Topological domains in the cell wall of Escherichia coli.- Models for pattern formation in bacteria applied to bacterial morphogenesis.- The assembly of proteins at the cell division site.- Regulation and utilization of cell division for bacterial cell differentiation.- FtsZ folding, self-association, activation and assembly.- Sequence and structural alignments of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cytoskeletal proteins.- Bacterial morphogenes.- Genome structures, operating systems and the image of the machine.- Gene order in Prokaryotes: conservation and implications.- How similar cell division genes are located and behave in different bacteria.- The bacterial dcw gene cluster: an island in the genome?.