Reposted by Till Epprecht
Tiny bacteria, fascinating biology 🦠 Great work by Marcel & Fabienne from Thomas Rudel’s lab @uni-wuerzburg.de using ExM to explore Chlamydia infection. @tillepprecht.ch from our group added cryo-ET insights—the tiniest bacteria we’ve ever milled!🔍 Congrats to the team
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Sphingolipids associate with the chlamydial nucleoid and mark developmental transitions in Chlamydia trachomatis - Nature Communications
During the developmental cycle of the pathogenic bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, non-replicative bacterial cells (elementary bodies, EBs) alternate with replicative forms within membrane-bound inclus...