Structure of the bacterial cellulose ribbon and its assembly-guiding cytoskeleton by electron cryotomography

WJ Nicolas, D Ghosal, EI Tocheva… - Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… S3), which is a rare and largely uncharacterized aspect of bacteria (45). The most notable
feature we observed was another ribbon-like structure closely associated with the inner …

Bdellovibrio predation cycle characterized at nanometre-scale resolution with cryo-electron tomography

M Kaplan, YW Chang, CM Oikonomou, WJ Nicolas… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… described unidentified structures, including cytoplasmic tubes. We also detected fimbriae on
the … The most intriguing structure we observed on attack-phase cells is the rose-like complex …

Cellular and structural studies of eukaryotic cells by cryo-electron tomography

MS Weber, M Wojtynek, O Medalia - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
… remarkable insights into bacterial structures and mechanisms, such as bacterial secretion
systems [59,60], motility mechanisms [13,14,61,62,63], and the bacterial cytoskeleton [64]. …

Bacterial ultrastructure

M Rohde - Molecular Medical Microbiology, 2024 - Elsevier
… With the advent of cryo-tomography, which allows for studying ultrastructural details in bacteria
… access to such cryo-transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) [9], [10]. Such high-end …

Analysis of Cell–Cell Bridges in Haloferax volcanii Using Electron Cryo-Tomography Reveal a Continuous Cytoplasm and S-Layer

S Sivabalasarma, H Wetzel, P Nußbaum… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… To better understand this process, we used electron cryo-tomography (cryoET) and
fluorescence microscopy to visualize cells forming these intercellular bridges. CryoET showed that …

Previously uncharacterized rectangular bacterial structures in the dolphin mouth

NK Dudek, JG Galaz-Montoya, H Shi, M Mayer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
bacterial structures (RBSs) in the mouths of bottlenose dolphins. DNA staining revealed
Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy and tomography showed parallel membrane-…

Cell-to-cell interactions revealed by cryo-tomography of a DPANN co-culture system

MD Johnson, DC Shepherd, HD Sakai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
… These results show the nature of ARM-1 and AS-7 interaction in molecular detail and reveal
previously uncharacterized protein nanotube and putative receptor structures that mediate …

Ultrastructure of Exospore Formation in Streptomyces Revealed by Cryo-Electron Tomography

DL Sexton, EI Tocheva - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… Our data reveal the native ultrastructure of vegetative hyphae, including the likely structures
of the polarisome and cytoskeletal filaments. In addition, we observed septal junctions in …

High-throughput cryo-ET structural pattern mining by unsupervised deep iterative subtomogram clustering

X Zeng, A Kahng, L Xue, J Mahamid… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
… We detected biologically meaningful structural patterns including single and double membranes
… We find that the structures detected by DISCA were similar to previously reported ones …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the bacterial nano-universe

N Söderholm, B Singh, BE Uhlin, L Sandblad - Current opinion in structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Cryo-ET will enable the next revolution in our understanding of bacterial cells, their ultra-structure
and intricate molecular nanomachines. Here, we highlight recent research discoveries …