Nature Communications (Apr 2017)
Determining the bacterial cell biology of Planctomycetes
- Christian Boedeker,
- Margarete Schüler,
- Greta Reintjes,
- Olga Jeske,
- Muriel C. F. van Teeseling,
- Mareike Jogler,
- Patrick Rast,
- Daniela Borchert,
- Damien P. Devos,
- Martin Kucklick,
- Miroslava Schaffer,
- Roberto Kolter,
- Laura van Niftrik,
- Susanne Engelmann,
- Rudolf Amann,
- Manfred Rohde,
- Harald Engelhardt,
- Christian Jogler
Affiliations
- Christian Boedeker
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ
- Margarete Schüler
- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
- Greta Reintjes
- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
- Olga Jeske
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ
- Muriel C. F. van Teeseling
- Department of Microbiology, Radboud University
- Mareike Jogler
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ
- Patrick Rast
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ
- Daniela Borchert
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ
- Damien P. Devos
- Department of Cell biology and Biotechnology, CABD, Pablo de Olavide University-CSIC
- Martin Kucklick
- Helmholtz Center for Infection Research GmbH
- Miroslava Schaffer
- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
- Roberto Kolter
- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
- Laura van Niftrik
- Department of Microbiology, Radboud University
- Susanne Engelmann
- Helmholtz Center for Infection Research GmbH
- Rudolf Amann
- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
- Manfred Rohde
- Helmholtz Center for Infection Research GmbH
- Harald Engelhardt
- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
- Christian Jogler
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14853
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
Several unusual features have been reported for bacteria of the phylum Planctomycetes, such as cytosolic compartmentalization and an endocytosis-like process. Here, Boedekeret al. provide evidence supporting a Gram-negative cell plan and the absence of endocytosis-like processes in these organisms.