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Crystalline cell surface layer of Mycobacterium bovis BCG. |
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| Authors: | K Lounatmaa and E Brander |
| Affiliation: | Department of Electron Microscopy, University of Helsinki, Finland. |
| Abstract: | A paracrystalline surface layer (S layer) was found as the outermost layer of the cell wall of five Mycobacterium bovis BCG strains. An oblique arrangement of the subunits in the S layer was only clearly seen in thin-sectioned and shadowed preparations, and the unit constant was about 5.5 nm. |
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