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List of references

Apr 09, 2008 by Stülke J., Eilers H., and Schmidl S.

Cytology

Reviews:

  • Balish, M. F., and Krause, D. C. 2003. Cytadherence and the cytoskeleton. In: Razin, S., Herrmann, R. (eds.): Molecular Biology and pathogenicity of Mycoplasmas. Kluver Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York.
  • Krause, D. C., and Balish, M. F. 2004. Cellular engineering in a minimal microbe: structure and assembly of the terminal organelle of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Mol. Microbiol. 51: 917-924.
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    Original work:

  • Balish, M. F., Santurri, R. T., Ricci, A. M., et al. 2003. Localization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae cytadherence-associated protein HMW2 by fusion with green fluorescent protein: implications for attachment organelle structure. Mol. Microbiol. 47: 49-60.
  • Baseman, J. B., Cole, R. M., Krause, D. C., and Leith, D. K. 1982. Molecular basis for cytadsorption of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. J. Bacteriol. 151: 1514-1522.
  • Biberfeld, G., and Biberfeld, P. 1970. Ultrastructural features of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. J. Bacteriol. 102: 855-861.
  • Göbel, U., Speth, V., and Bredt, W. 1981. Filamentous structures in adherent Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells treated with nonionic detergents. J. Cell. Biol. 91: 537-543.
  • Hasselbring, B. M., and Krause, D. C. 2007. Proteins P24 and P41 function in the regulation of terminal-organelle development and gliding motility in Mycoplasma pneumoniae. J. Bacteriol. 189: 7442-7449.
  • Hasselbring, B. M., and Krause, D. C. 2007. Cytoskeletal protein P41 is required to anchor the terminal organelle of the wall-less prokaryote Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Mol. Microbiol. 63: 44-53.
  • Hasselbring, B. M., Jordan, J. L., and Krause, D. C. 2005. Mutant analysis reveals a specific requirement for protein P30 in Mycoplasma pneumoniae gliding motility. J. Bacteriol. 187: 6281-6289.
  • Hasselbring, B. M., Jordan, J. L., Krause, R. W., and Krause, D. C. 2006. Terminal organelle development in the cell wall-less bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 16478-16483.
  • Hasselbring, B. M., Page, C. A., Sheppard, E. S., and Krause, D. C. 2006. Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae gliding motility. J. Bacteriol. 188: 4335-4345.
  • Hegermann, J., Herrmann, R., and Mayer, F. 2002. Cytoskeletal elements in the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Naturwissenschaften 89: 453-458.
  • Hegermann, J., Halbedel, S., Regula, J., Gabdoulline, R. R., Stülke, J., and Herrmann, R. 2008. The acidic glutamate-rich Mpn474 protein of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is surface exposed and covers the complete cell. Microbiology 154: 1185-1192.
  • Henderson, G. P., and Jensen, G. J. 2006. Three-dimensional structure of Mycoplasma pneumoniae's attachment organelle and a model for its role in gliding motility. Mol. Microbiol. 60: 376-385.
  • Kenri, T., Seto, S., Horino, A., et al. 2004. Use of fluorescent-protein tagging to determine the subcellular localization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae proteins encoded by the cytadherence regulatory locus. J. Bacteriol. 186: 6944-6955.
  • Neyrolles, O., Brenner, C., Prevost, M. C., et al. 1998. Identification of two glycosylated components of Mycoplasma penetrans: a surface-exposed capsular polysaccharide and a glycolipid fraction. Microbiology 144: 1247-1255.
  • Meng, K. E., and Pfister, R. M. 1980. Intracellular structures of Mycoplasma pneumoniae revealed after membrane removal J. Bacteriol. 144: 390-399.
  • Nakane, D., and Miyata, M. 2007. Cytoskeletal "jellyfish" structure of Mycoplasma mobile. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104: 19518-19523.
  • Regula, J. T., Boguth, G., Görg, A., et al. 2001. Defining the mycoplasma "cytoskeleton": the protein composition of the Triton X-100 insoluble fraction of the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae determined by 2-D-gelelectrophoresis and mass spectrometry. Microbiology 147: 1045-1057.
  • Seybert A., Herrmann, R., and Frangakis, A. S. 2006. Structural analysis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae by cryo-electron tomography. J. Struct. Biol. 156: 342-345.
  • Willby, M. J., and Krause, D. C. 2002. Characterization of a Mycoplasma pneumoniae hmw3 mutant: implications for attachment organelle assembly. J. Bacteriol. 184: 3061-3068.
  • Wilson, M. H., and Collier, A. M. 1976. Ultrastructural study of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in organ culture. J. Bacteriol. 125: 332-339.
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