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Medmicro Chapter 2 |
 | | The principal surface layers are capsules and loose slime, the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria and the complex cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria, plasma (cytoplasmic) membranes, and mesosomal membrane vesicles, which arise from invaginations of the plasma membrane. |
 | | In bacteria, the cell wall forms a rigid structure of uniform thickness around the cell and is responsible for the characteristic shape of the cell (rod, coccus, or spiral). |
 | | The topographic relationships of the cell wall and envelope layers to the plasma membrane are indicated in the thin section of a Gram-positive organism (Micrococcus lysodeikticus) in Figure 2-5A and in the freeze-fractured cell of a Gram-negative organism (Bacteroides melaninogenicus) in Figure 2-5B. |
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