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Methanospirillum hungatei is an archaebacterial methanogen which metabolizes CO2 + H2 into CH4 under strictly anaerobic conditions. The bacterium exists as chains of rod-shaped cells which are packed into narrow filaments ca. nine cells long. A sheath is the filament’s outermost structure which encloses the entire chain of cells; its rigidity gives the cells their shape and keeps them in chains (Beveridge et al. 1987).
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Beveridge, T.J., Sára, M., Pum, D., Sprott, G.D., Stewart, M., Sleytr, U.B. (1988). The Structure, Chemistry and Physicochemistry of the Methanospirillum hungatei GP1 Sheath. In: Sleytr, U.B., Messner, P., Pum, D., Sára, M. (eds) Crystalline Bacterial Cell Surface Layers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73537-0_6
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