Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2021 Mar 9;12:630573. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.630573

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2021 Beskrovnaya, Sexton, Golmohammadzadeh, Hashimi and Tocheva.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

PMC Copyright notice

In situ structural detail of sporulation revealed by cryo electron tomography. Each image is a 20-nm slice through a tomogram. Column one (A,D,G,J) outlines major stages of endospore formation in the model organism Bacillus subtilis. Column two (B,E,H,K) outlines endospore formation in Acetonema longum, a diderm Firmicute and member of the Negativicutes. Column three (C,F,I,L) outlines exospore formation in Streptomyces albus. Cytoplasmic (CM) and inner membranes (IM) are shown in red, outer membrane (OM) is shown in blue. The inner and outer spore membranes in Firmicutes (IsM and OsM) are both colored in red to show that they are derived from the CM/IM of the mother cell.