Skip to main content
. 2017 May 9;18(7):1090–1099. doi: 10.15252/embr.201744072

Figure 1. Visualization of the Myxococcus xanthus T6SS in vivo .

Figure 1

  • A, B
    Tomographic slices through an extended T6SS (A) and a contracted T6SS (B) (arrows) in frozen‐hydrated M. xanthus cells.
  • C
    Central slice of the sub‐tomogram average of the extended T6SS. L1–L3: different layers of densities in between the sheath and the IM.
  • D
    Extracellular bacteriophage tail fiber‐like antennae (arrows) captured in different slices of the tomogram shown in (A).
Data information: Scale bar in (A), 50 nm, applies to (A) and (B); scale bars in (C) and (D), 10 nm.