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Bacterial Intracellular Membranes

  1. John F Stolz

Published Online: 16 JUL 2007

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000303.pub2

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Stolz, J. F. 2007. Bacterial Intracellular Membranes. eLS. .

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  1. Duquesne University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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  1. Published Online: 16 JUL 2007
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Abstract

This article describes the occurrence, structure, arrangement and function of bacterial intracytoplasmic membranes (ICMS) including magnetosomes of magnetotactic bacteria, the thylakoids of cyanobacteria and chloroxybacteria, the ICMS of purple bacteria and chemoautotrophic bacteria and the chlorosomes of green bacteria.

Keywords:

  • thylakoids;
  • phycobilisomes;
  • intracytoplasmic membrane (ICM);
  • chlorosome
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