Abstract
A freeze-fracture study has provided new information about the filamentous, segmented microorganism known to live in the murine small bowel. The intracellular bodies produced by this microbe appear to arise by a modified sporogenesis so that they are enclosed in an envelopment membrane at least prior to release by the filament mother cell. At least some of the intracellular bodies divide while still within the mother cell, suggesting a reproductive role for these structures. The host epithelial membrane remains intact at the site of attachment, but does appear to have a reduced concentration of intramembrane particles. Changes in the host cytoplasm adjacent to the attachment site are documented and interpreted to be a sol-gel transformation which may stabilize the attachment socket.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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