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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
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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 transition temperature of the lipids back to wild type levels by shifting the phase preference of cardiolipin in the...
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