Detailed Glimpse Of Chemoreceptor Architecture In Bacterial Cells
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 22:28
in Biology & Nature
Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, researchers have for the first time visualized 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.