The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly ordered. Textbook images like the one below have shaped our thinking. Robert Turner and his colleagues ...

Gram positive cell wall structure. The cell wall structure of Gram positive bacteria consists of the periplasmic space enclosed between the plasma membrane and a thick peptidoglycan layer.

W. T. Astbury, R. D. Preston, The Structure of the Cell Wall in Some Species of the Filamentous Green Alga Cladophora, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol.

More information: Sarah A Pfaff et al, The structure and interaction of polymers affects secondary cell wall banding patterns in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koae233 ...

Understanding how pathogenic fungi build their carbohydrate armor Date: November 19, 2021 Source: Louisiana State University Summary: A research team revealed the molecular architecture of fungal ...

In all tree species, there are long tube-like fibers found in the secondary cell wall called macrofibrils which hold wood cells. These fibers are made from chains of cellulose and give trees their ...

1. The cell of the Cyanophyceae possesses no differentiated central organ of the nature of a "central body" or a nucleus. Undifferentiated protoplasm is uniformly distributed throughout the entire ...

A paper describing the research appeared in the October issue of the journal The Plant Cell.. Cellulose, a structural component of plant cell walls, is an abundant and promising source of biofuels.