Caltech scientists get detailed glimpse of chemoreceptor architecture in bacterial cells

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 06:49 in Biology & Nature

Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, a team led by researchers from Caltech has for the first time visualised and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors - the receptors that sense and respond to chemical stimuli - in bacteria. In addition, they have found that this specific architecture is the same throughout a wide variety of bacterial species, which means that this is a stable, universal structure that has been conserved over evolutionary time...

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