The fracture-flip technique reveals new structural features of the Escherichia coli cell wall

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 213-218

  Risco, C ^a,b   Pinto Da Silva, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial wall ultrastructure; Escherichia coli; Fracture flip; Gram negative bacteria; Peptidoglycan layer

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; FRACTURE;

BACTERIAL WALL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL WALLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI CELLS; FRACTURE-FLIP; FREEZE-FRACTURE TECHNIQUE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MULTI-LAYERED; PEPTIDOGLYCAN LAYER; PEPTIDOGLYCANS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREEZE FRACTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 7144261712     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1998.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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