title: The stack: a new bacterial structure analyzed in the Antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas deceptionensis M1(T) by transmission electron microscopy and tomography.
abstract: In recent years, improvements in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques and the use of tomography have provided a more accurate view of the complexity of the ultrastructure of prokaryotic cells. Cryoimmobilization of specimens by rapid cooling followed by freeze substitution (FS) and sectioning, freeze fracture (FF) and observation of replica, or cryoelectron microscopy of vitreous sections (CEMOVIS) now allow visualization of biological samples close to their native state, enabling us to refine our knowledge of already known bacterial structures and to discover new ones. Application of these techniques to the new Antarctic cold-adapted bacterium Pseudomonasdeceptionensis M1(T) has demonstrated the existence of a previously undescribed cytoplasmic structure that does not correspond to known bacterial inclusion bodies or membranous formations. This structure, which we term a "stack", was mainly visualized in slow growing cultures of P. deceptionensis M1(T) and can be described as a set of stacked membranous discs usually arranged perpendicularly to the cell membrane, but not continuous with it, and found in variable number in different locations within the cell. Regardless of their position, stacks were mostly observed very close to DNA fibers. Stacks are not exclusive to P. deceptionensis M1(T) and were also visualized in slow-growing cultures of other bacteria. This new structure deserves further study using cryoelectron tomography to refine its configuration and to establish whether its function could be related to chromosome dynamics.
authors.affiliation: Crio-Microscòpia Electrònica. Centres Científics i Tecnològics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain ; Laboratori de Microbiologia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Lidia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Delgado
authors.forename: Ornella
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Carrión
authors.forename: Gema
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: López-Iglesias
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mercadé
mesh_terms: D000864:Antarctic Regions; D005614:Freeze Fracturing; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / Q000379:methods*; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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