Novel ultrastructures of Treponema primitia and their implications for motility

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1184-1195

  Murphy, Gavin E ^a   Matson, Eric G ^a   Leadbetter, Jared R ^a   Berg, Howard C ^b   Jensen, Grant J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON CRYOTOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAGELLUM; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PRIMITIA;

CYTOPLASM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERIPLASM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREPONEMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ISOPTERA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; TREPONEMA PRIMITIA;

EID: 39849105856     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06120.x     Document Type: Article

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