TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Armadillos
KW - Cell Membrane
KW - Cell Wall
KW - Corynebacterium
KW - Freeze Etching
KW - Freeze Fracturing
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Mice
KW - Mycobacterium
KW - Mycobacterium avium
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Mycobacterium lepraemurium
AU - Benedetti E L
AU - Dunia I
AU - Ludosky M A
AU - Nguyen V M
AU - Dang D T
AU - Rastogi N
AU - David H L
AB - <p>The structural properties of the cell wall and cell membrane of several mycobacteria and of Leprosy Derived Corynebacteria are investigated by freeze-etching and freeze-fracture. In all cases the freeze-fracture split the cell wall in two asymmetric halves. The cell wall fracture faces of the mycobacteria are characterized by a filamentous network which vary with respect to the amount and complexity among microorganism of the same species and even more of different species. In LDC the structure organization of the cell wall and cell membrane differs from that of mycobacteria. The most stricking difference is the presence on the fracture faces of the LDC cell wall of different classes of particulated entities of yet unknown nature. In the mycobacteria and LDC the periseptal annuli likely provide a potential frame for cell envelope and cell membrane assembly.</p>
BT - Acta leprologica
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6398584?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1984 Oct-Dec
IS - 2-4
J2 - Acta Leprol
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The structural properties of the cell wall and cell membrane of several mycobacteria and of Leprosy Derived Corynebacteria are investigated by freeze-etching and freeze-fracture. In all cases the freeze-fracture split the cell wall in two asymmetric halves. The cell wall fracture faces of the mycobacteria are characterized by a filamentous network which vary with respect to the amount and complexity among microorganism of the same species and even more of different species. In LDC the structure organization of the cell wall and cell membrane differs from that of mycobacteria. The most stricking difference is the presence on the fracture faces of the LDC cell wall of different classes of particulated entities of yet unknown nature. In the mycobacteria and LDC the periseptal annuli likely provide a potential frame for cell envelope and cell membrane assembly.</p>
PY - 1984
SP - 237
EP - 48
T2 - Acta leprologica
TI - Freeze-etching and freeze-fracture structural features of cell envelopes in mycobacteria and leprosy derived corynebacteria.
VL - 2
SN - 0001-5938
ER -