STRUCTURE OF RHODOMICROBIUM VANNIELII
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CONTENT ALERTS Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ A. E. VATTER,' H. C. DOUGLAS, AND R. S. WOLFE2 Electron Microscope Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, and the Departmoent of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Evidence has been presented in a recent study (Vatter and Wolfe, J. Bacteriol., 75, 480, 1958) that the chromatophore is a fundamental structural unit of photosynthetic bacteria, in that discrete chromatophores are readily observed by Figure 1. Electron micrograph of an ultrathin section of Rhodomicrobium vannielii showing:lamellae (L) and cell wall (CW). electron microscopy of ultrathin sections in Rhodospirillum, Rhodopseudomonas, Chlorobium, and Chromatium. The absence of a lamelPresent address: Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois. 2 National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellow. :g_WC?t.^a°X *:: ;: =9- :X:. NOTES Received for publication January 27, 1959 lar photosynthetic apparatus in these bacteria stands in sharp contrast to the lamellae found in the chloroplasts of algae and higher pli ants and to the peripherally laminated cells of bllue-green algae (Wettstein, Hereditas, 43, 303, 19557). v,^. ... [VOL. 77 Downloaded from http://jb.asm.org/ on