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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Microbiol. 2009 May 6;12(3):333–340. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.03.007

Figure 3. Surface appendages.

Figure 3

(A) 10-nm tomographic slice through a Treponema primitia cell, showing novel surface appendage structures. Scale bar 200 nm. Adapted from [23] with permission from Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (B) 3-nm tomographic slice through the middle of a Flavobacterium johnsoniae cell, showing the outer membrane (OM), cytoplasmic membrane (CM), cell surface filaments (F) and added latex spheres (S). Inset: enlarged view of the boxed area showing the peptidoglycan layer (P) and a patch (A) underneath the outer membrane. Scale bar 300 nm. Adapted from [29] with permission from the American Society of Microbiology.