Membrane-murein attachment at the leading edge of the division septum: a second membrane-murein structure associated with morphogenesis of the gram-negative bacterial division septum
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- 31 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 169 (9) , 3945-3951
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.169.9.3945-3951.1987
Abstract
Electron microscopy of plasmolyzed cells of Salmonella typhimurium revealed a continuous zone of membrane-murein attachment at the leading edge of the division septum at all stages of septal invagination. The membrane-murein attachment site had a characteristic ultrastructural appearance and remained as a bacterial birth scar at the new pole of each of the two daughter cells after cell separation. The continuous zone of membrane-murein attachment at the leading septal edge represents the second organelle based on a topologically ordered domain of membrane-murein adhesion to be described at the site of cell division.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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