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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Heimerl T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5468417 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in microbiology 20170613
Based on serial sectioning, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB/SEM), and electron tomography, we depict in detail the highly unusual anatomy of the marine hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon, <i>Ignicoccus hospitalis</i>. Our data support a complex and dynamic endomembrane system consisting of cytoplasmic protrusions, and with secretory function. Moreover, we reveal that the cytoplasm of the putative archaeal ectoparasite <i>Nanoarchaeum equitans</i> can get in direct contact with thi ...[more]