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  • adjective Surrounding the plasma of a bacterium

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Examples

  • Loss of the L ring does not inhibit motility only relocates the flagella to the periplasmic space.

    Friday flagellum blogging -- spirochete flagella - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Using cryo-electron tomography, they were able to reconstruct a three-dimensional image of the spirochete and its periplasmic flagella.

    Friday flagellum blogging -- spirochete flagella - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • GOX was mainly secreted, remaining either in the periplasmic space or in the culture supernatant.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Saul Rocha 2010

  • The transmembrane (TM) and periplasmic domains of ToxR are believed to act as sensors of environmental signals

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Toshio Kodama et al. 2010

  • ToxR is an integral membrane protein and consists of three functional domains: cytoplasmic domain, transmembrane domain and periplasmic domain

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Toshio Kodama et al. 2010

  • Study of Geobacter sulfurreducens has shown that TCA cycle enzymes, inner-membrane respiratory enzymes, and periplasmic and outer-membrane cytochromes are required.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Jessica Butler 2010

  • The racemase inhabits the cell's periplasmic space between the inner and outer membranes, and begins synthesizing D-amino acids when the cell stops growing, the team found.

    HHMI News 2009

  • LolA is a periplasmic chaperone that transports lipoproteins, and LolB is an outer membrane receptor that accepts lipoproteins.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue Nakada, S., Sakakura, M., Takahashi, H., Okuda, S. 2009

  • The periplasmic compartment is a space between the inner and outer membranes of bacteria such as Escherichia coli, which were used in this study.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Amplification of bacterial genomic DNA by the polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing after asymmetric amplification: application to the study of periplasmic permeases V. Shyamala, and G. F. - L. Ames Dept. of Biochemistry, UC Berkeley, CA J. Bacteriol.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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