Whole genome sequence data of the mutants with altered cell shape, directed mutants, wild type stocks and isolated helical and rod - shaped «wild type» C. jejuni, identified a number of different mutations in pgp1 and pgp2, which result in a change in helical to rod
bacterial cell shape.
Not exact matches
Environmental «noise» is a key evolutionary pressure that
shapes the interconnections within
cells, as well as those of neural networks and
bacterial / ecological networks, they observe in a paper to be published online April 30 by the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
The team focused on one efflux pump protein, known as AcrA, which connects two other proteins in a tunnel
shape through the
bacterial cell envelope.
These
bacterial films may have duped researchers by growing into the channels and spaces where the T. rex's blood vessels and bone
cells (osteocytes) had once been, mirroring both the
shape and elasticity of soft tissue.
Sea spray aerosols come in a wide variety of sizes and
shapes with chemical complexity ranging from simple salts to complex biological mixtures to
bacterial cells.
«Archaea resemble
bacterial cells in size and
shape but their
cell cycle events — such as division and DNA replication — are a hybrid between eukaryotes and bacteria.»
In several cases, inflammatory
cells surrounded
bacterial colonies that were bordered by radiating, bright eosinophilic club -
shaped material (Splendore - Hoeppli material).