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Membranes of bacteria lacking peptidoglycan

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Microbial Cell Walls and Membranes

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Bacteria lacking peptidoglycan come into four main categories: Mycoplasmas, bacterial L-forms, halobacteria and methanogenic bacteria. The last-named were only recently identified as falling in this class, when Kandier and Hippe [14] showed that the walls of Methanosarcina barken and some other species lacked muramic acid, glucosamine and D-glutamic acid. The structural component of the wall of M. barkeri consisted of galactosamine, uronic acids, glucose and a little galactose and thus resembled that of Halococcus morrhuae (see below) except that it was not sulphated. Further evidence has now indicated that many of the Methanobacteria have walls containing ‘pseudomurein’ (see Chapter 6) and that they may be considered as a group along with the Halobacteria, Thermosplasma and Sulfolobus to form a separate kingdom of prokaryotes designated Archaebacteria [66].

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Rogers, H.J., Perkins, H.R., Ward, J.B. (1980). Membranes of bacteria lacking peptidoglycan. In: Microbial Cell Walls and Membranes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6014-8_5

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