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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Listeria monocytogenes
SUBMITTER: Carmen Buchrieser
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-116 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Dell'Era Simone S Buchrieser Carmen C Couvé Elisabeth E Schnell Barbara B Briers Yves Y Schuppler Markus M Loessner Martin J MJ
Molecular microbiology 20090623 2
Cell wall-deficient bacteria referred to as L-forms have lost the ability to maintain or build a rigid peptidoglycan envelope. We have generated stable, non-reverting L-form variants of the Gram-positive pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, and studied the cellular and molecular changes associated with this transition. Stable L-form cells can occur as small protoplast-like vesicles and as multinucleated, large bodies. They have lost the thick, multilayered murein sacculus and are surrounded by a cyt ...[more]