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Contact and cellulolysis inClostridium thermocellum via extensile surface organelles

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The ultrastructural distribution of the cellulosome (a cellulose-binding, multi-cellulase protein complex) of the thermophilic anaerobe,Clostridium thermocellum, was investigated. The cellulosome is compacted into protuberant cell surface structures, which, upon interaction with cellulose, form extended contact corridors wherein cellulolysis apparently occurs.

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  1. Center for Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

    R. Lamed & E. A. Bayer

  2. Department of Biophysics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    R. Lamed & E. A. Bayer

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Lamed, R., Bayer, E.A. Contact and cellulolysis inClostridium thermocellum via extensile surface organelles. Experientia 42, 72–73 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01975901

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