Microbes, traditionally thought to lack organelles, get a metabolic boost from geometric ... Learn about our Editorial Policies. Bacteria had grown out in a yellowish smear coating the plates, but ...

The engulfed bacteria, now called organelles, use oxygen to convert organic food supplies (sugars) into energy for the host. How do we know that organelles were once free-living bacteria?

researchers contend that what they are seeing may be a snapshot of the evolutionary process of bacterial-derived organelles that are nitrogen-fixing. "Our study focuses on a much more recent ...

They are cells that patrol the brain and destroy anything harmful that they encounter, from invading bacteria to cellular ... and seal it in bubble-like organelles called phagosomes.

Some bacteria avoid these inconveniences by instead occupying organelle-like compartments that separate them from the rest of the cell. These microbes can and do still interact with actin—some secrete ...

Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast ...

Animal cells contain organelles that are similar to bacterial and unicellular eukaryotic acidocalcisomes, notably the dense granules in human platelets, which contain high concentrations of ...

which mediate ER interactions with other organelles, are known to be co-opted by other pathogens during infection. During infection by R. parkeri, VAP proteins were recruited to the bacteria; when ...

However, certain bacteria can resist the elimination inside macrophages and thus are able to escape the control of the immune system. Our research now identifies a specialized communication mode ...

Prokaryotes are unicellular and lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. They are generally smaller and simpler and include bacteria and archaea. Eukaryotes on the other hand are often ...

Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals ... set of proteins that are contained within membrane-bound organelles called magnetosomes. Each bacterium contains 10–20 ...