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Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Microbiol. 2009 Aug 10;7(9):666–675. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2183

Table 2 |.

Cryo-electron microscopy of sections from intact, vitrified bacterial cells

cell type	Main features identified	Laboratory location	Year	Refs
*Gram-negative bacteria*
Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Membrane distribution and peptidoglycan layer	Lausanne, Switzerland	2003	69
E. coli	Lipid bilayer leaflets, chemotaxis receptors	NCI/NIH, USA	2004	72
E. coli	Filaments	Cambridge, UK	2008	75
*Gram-positive bacteria*
Bacillus subtilis	Delineation of peptidoglycan, periplasm	Lausanne, Switzerland	2005	36
Staphylococcus aureus	Cell division	Guelph, Canada	2006, 2007	67,70
Streptococcus gordonii, Enterococcus gallinarum	Septum in dividing cells	Lausanne, Switzerland	2006	68
*Mycobacterial family*
Mycobacterium smegmatis, Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin, Corynebacterium glutamicum	Inner and outer membrane bilayer profiles	Lausanne, Switzerland; Martinsried, Germany	2008	26,73
*Cyanobacteria*
Lyngbya majuscula	Membranes and S-layer	Lausanne, Switzerland	2004	89
Prochlorococcus spp.	Photosynthetic membrane arrangement	Albany, USA	2008	34
*Radiation-resistant bacteria*
Deinococcus radiodurans	Nucleoid region	Lausanne, Switzerland	2005, 2006	74,91

NCI, National Cancer Institute; NIH, National Institutes of Health.