[Modes of the formation of elementary bodies and their isolation from the cell in L-form bacteria]
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Abstract:
Elementary bodies are formed on the cell surface and inside the cell body in all cell types characteristic of L-form cultures, i. e. spherical cells, large bodies and filament structures. The following ways of elementary body formation are described: by budding on the cell surface, appearance immediately in the cytoplasm, in the vacuole, as a result of cytoplasmic fragmentation accompanied by the lysis of the cell, as well as in cases of the separation of cytoplasmic areas surrounded by the membrane or the myelin-like structure. The release of elementary bodies from the cell occurs as a result of the lysis or death of the mother cell, the thinning of the vacuole wall, and possibly due to small transient defects in the membrane, not accompanied by the death of the mother cell. The scheme of the formation and release of elementary bodies from the cell is presented.
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