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Fig. 3 | BMC Microbiology

Fig. 3

From: Bacterial microcompartments for isethionate desulfonationĀ in the taurine-degrading human-gut bacterium Bilophila wadsworthia

Fig. 3

TEM images of ultrathin sections of B. wadsworthia cells grown with taurine (A) or 3-sulfolactate as the electron acceptor (B).Ā Polyhedral structures characteristic of BMCs were observed specifically for taurine-grown cells. Scale bars: 500 nm. The inset in (A) is a 6x magnification. The structures in B. wadsworthia appeared very similar to these in the BMC-producing Desulfovibrio alaskensis during growth with choline (see Figure S2), as previously described [64]

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