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Location and architecture of the Caulobacter crescentus chemoreceptor array.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jul 2008
Briegel Ariane, Ding H Jane, Li Zhuo, Werner John, Gitai Zemer, Dias D Prabha, Jensen Rasmus B, Jensen Grant J
Abstract excerpt
A new method for recording both fluorescence and cryo-EM images of small bacterial cells was developed and used to identify chemoreceptor arrays in cryotomograms of intact Caulobacter crescentus cells. We show that in wild-type cells preserved in a near-native state, the chemoreceptors are hexagonally packed with a lattice spacing of 12 nm, just a few tens of nanometers away from the flagellar motor that they...
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