| Literature DB >> 20556446 |
Seiji Sonobe1, Kazue Aoyama, Chihiro Suzuki, Ko-hei Saito, Kumiko Nagata, Teruo Shimmen, Yoko Nagata.
Abstract
Pyrobaculum islandicum is a hyperthermophilic archaeon. P. islandicum cells have been suggested to multiply by constriction, budding and branching, as no septa were observed in cells by phase-contrast light microscopy. In this study, we observed the cells using transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and light microscopy with dark-field image analyses, and we report binary fission via septum formation to be the main mode of P. islandicum's proliferation. "Long cells" reported previously were found to comprise several cylindrical cells that align in tandem.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20556446 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-010-0321-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Extremophiles ISSN: 1431-0651 Impact factor: 2.395