Textbook images show peptidoglycan as straight and ordered. The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly ordered. Textbook images like the one below ...

Pili can be found evenly around the surface of the cell, or localized to one or both of the poles. They are typical of Gram-negative bacteria, but can be found in Gram-positive bacteria and ...

Bacterial cells close bacterial cell A microscopic individual cell of a bacterium. have a more simple structure compared to animal, plant and fungal cells and are usually much smaller.

The distinction between different cell-envelope architectures has ... to the possible origin of the second membrane typical of Gram-negative bacteria. You have full access to this article via ...

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they ...