Nanopods: a new bacterial structure and mechanism for deployment of outer membrane vesicles.

Bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMV) are packets of periplasmic material that, via the proteins and other molecules they contain, project metabolic function into the environment. While OMV production is widespread in proteobacteria, they have been extensively studied only in pathogens, which inha...

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Main Authors: Ameesha Shetty, Shicheng Chen, Elitza I Tocheva, Grant J Jensen, William J Hickey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3110197?pdf=render