Structural biologists have traditionally approached cellular complexity in a reductionist
manner in which the cellular molecular components are fractionated and purified before …

Raman microspectroscopy offers microbiologists a rapid and non-destructive technique to
assess the chemical composition of individual live microorganisms in near real time. In this …

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a non-destructive imaging technique in which contrast
originates from the materials' absorption coefficient. The recent development of laboratory …

BACKGROUND To understand material properties and functionality at the most fundamental
level, one must know the three-dimensional (3D) positions of atoms with high precision. For …

We observed the assembly of a nucleus-like structure in bacteria during viral infection. Using
fluorescence microscopy and cryo-electron tomography, we showed that Pseudomonas …

Tomography has made a revolutionary impact on the physical, biological and medical
sciences. The mathematical foundation of tomography is to reconstruct a three-dimensional …

The chapter about the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall gives a brief historical background
on the discovery of Gram-positive cell walls and their constituents and microscopic methods …

Bacterial physiology is a branch of biology that aims to understand overarching principles of
cellular reproduction. Many important issues in bacterial physiology are inherently …

The flagellar stator unit is an oligomeric complex of two membrane proteins (MotA 5 B 2) that
powers bi-directional rotation of the bacterial flagellum. Harnessing the ion motive force …

Most, if not all, bacterial and archaeal cells contain at least one protein filament system.
Although these filament systems in some cases form structures that are very similar to …