1. A Perspective on S-Layer Research. - 2. Crystallographic Image Processing Applications for S-Layers. - 3. Structures of Paracrystalline Protein Layers from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeobacterium Pyrobaculum. - 4. S-Layers Found on Clinical Isolates. - 5. A Common Structural Principle in the Surface Layers of the Archaeobacteria Haloferax Halobacterium and Archaeoglobus. - 6. Crystalline Surface-Layers of the Genus Lactobacillus. - 7. Ultrastructural and Chemical Characterization of a Cyanobacterial S-Layer Involved in Fine-Grain Mineral Formation. - 8. Advances in S-Layer Research of Chroococcal Cyanobacteria. - 9. Predation on Bacteria Possessing S-Layers. - 10. Glycoprotein Nature of Select Bacterial S-Layers. - 11. S-Layer Glycoproteins from Moderately and Extremely Halophilic Archaeobacteria. - 12. The Unique Chemical Formats and Biosynthetic Pathways of Methanogenic Surfaces. - 13. Paracrystalline Layers of Methanospirillum hungatei GP1. - 14. Structural and Functional Analysis of the S-Layer Protein from Bacillus stearothermophilus. - 15. Structure-Function Aspects of the Aeromonas salmonicida S-Layer. - 16. Molecular Structural and Functional Properties of Aeromonas S-Layers. - 17. Biology of Campylobacter fetus S-Layer Proteins. - 18. Definition of Form and Function for the S-Layer of Caulobacter crescentus. - 19. S-Layers as Immobilization and Affinity Matrices. - 20. Molecular Nanotechnology with S-Layers. - 21. Surface Layers from Bacillus alvei as a Carrier for Streptococcus pneumoniae Conjugate Vaccine. - 22. Scale-up of S-Layer Protein Secretion by Bacillus brevis 47. - 23. Investigation of Lattice Surface Layers by Scanning Probe Microscopy. - 24. Stable Liposomes Formed from Archaeal Ether Lipids. - 25. Structural Analysis of the Paracrystalline Layer of Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis UA809. - 26. Effect of Triton X-100 on the S-Layer of Methanoculleus marisnigri. - 27. Characterization of the S-Layer Glycoproteins of Two Lactobacilli. - 28. Does the S-Layer of Aeromonas salmonicida Exist in More Than One Functional Organizational State?. - 29. Attachment of the S-Layer of Caulobacter crescentus to the Cell Surface. - 30. Linker Mutagenesis of the Caulobacter crescentus S-Layer Protein. - 31. Can S-Layers of Bacillaceae Control the Release of Their Own Exoproteins?. - 32. S-Layer of Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72. - 33. Role of a C-Terminal Domain in the Structure and Surface Anchoring of the Tetragonal S-Layer of Aeromonas hydrophila. - 34. Identification and Characterization of an Aeromonas salmonicida Gene which Affects A-Protein Expression in Escherichia coli. - 35. Localisation and Cloning of Genes Involved in the Export of the A-Protein of Aeromonas salmonicida. - 36. Growth Medium Considerations for the Scale-up of S-Layer Protein Production by Bacillus brevis 47. - 37. Summary Statements. - Contributors. Language: English