Membrane invagination in Rhodobacter sphaeroides is initiated at curved regions of the cytoplasmic membrane, then forms both budded and fully detached spherical vesicles

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 833-847

  Tucker, Jaimey D ^a   Siebert, C Alistair ^b,e   Escalante, Maryana ^c   Adams, Peter G ^a   Olsen, John D ^a   Otto, Cees ^c   Stokes, David L ^b,d   Hunter, C Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b New York Structural Biology Centre   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; B800-850 LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX, BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX 1, RHODOSPIRILLUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOGENESIS; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SOLAR ENERGY; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 77952146714     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07153.x     Document Type: Article

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