Article
A freeze-fracture study of the membrane morphology of phosphatidylethanolamine-deficient Escherichia coli cells.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 13 Mar 1997
Rietveld A G, Verkleij A J, de Kruijff B
Abstract excerpt
Freeze-fracture electron microscopy was applied to study membrane morphology in a phosphatidylethanolamine-deficient E. coli strain. For growth, this strain requires millimolar concentrations of specific divalent cations like Mg2+ or Ca2+. These cations bring the bilayer to nonbilayer phase trans...
Topics
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
- Calcimycin
- Calcium
- Calorimetry, Differential Scanning
- Carrier Proteins
- Cell Membrane
- Edetic Acid
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Freeze Fracturing
- Ionophores
- Lipid Bilayers
- Magnesium
- Maltose-Binding Proteins
- Microscopy, Electron
- Monosaccharide Transport Proteins
- Mutation
- Phosphatidylethanolamines