Includes bibliographical references and index.

The global architecture of the mycobacterial cell envelope / Mamadou Daffé -- Wall ultrastructure and periplasm / Terry J. Beveridge -- Biosynthesis of the arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex of Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Dean C. Crick and Patrick J. Brennan -- A comprehensive overview of mycolic acid structure and biosynthesis / Hedia Marrakchi ... [et al.] -- Cording, cord factors, and trehalose dimycolate / Michael S. Glickman -- Structure, biosynthesis, and activities of phosphatidyl-myo-Inositol-based lipoglycans / Martine Gilleron ... [et al.] -- Antibiotics and new inhibitors of the cell wall / Lynn G. Dover ... [et al.] -- Enigmatic proteins from the surface : the Erp, PE, and PPE protein families / Giovanni Delogu ... [et al.] -- Mycobacterial porins / Michael Niederweis -- Iron uptake in mycobacteria / Luis E.N. Quadri -- The ABC transporter systems / Jean Content and Priska Peirs -- The MmpL protein family / Madhulika Jain, Eric D. Chow, and Jeffery S. Cox -- ESAT-6 and the mycobacterial ESX secretion systems / Ida Rosenkrands ... [et al.] -- Mycobacterial sigma factors and surface biology / Sahadevan Raman ... [et al.] --

Biosynthesis of mycobacterial lipids by multifunctional polyketide synthases / Vivek T. Natarajan, Debasisa Mohanty, and Rajesh S. Gokhale -- The constituents of the cell envelope and their impact on the host immune system / Warwick J. Britton and James A. Triccas -- Biosynthesis and roles of phenolic glycolipids and related molecules in Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Christophe Guilhot, Christian Chalut, and Mamadou Daffé -- Sulfated metabolites from Mycobacterium tuberculosis : sulfolipid-1 and beyond / Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Michael W. Schelle -- The mycobacterial heparin-binding hemagglutinin : a virulence factor and antigen useful for diagnostics and vaccine development / Camille Locht ... [et al.] -- The role of mycobacterial kinases and phosphatases in growth, pathogenesis, and cell wall metabolism / Anil K. Tyagi, Ramandeep Singh, and Vibha Gupta -- Glycopeptidolipids : a complex pathway for small pleiotropic molecules / Caroline Deshayes ... [et al.] -- The mycolactones : biologically active polyketides produced by Mycobacterium ulcerans and related aquatic mycobacteria / Timothy P. Stinear and Pamela L.C. Small -- Epilogue: The envelope : beyond the veil / Jean-Marc Reyrat and Mamadou Daffé.