Figure 3
Bacterial SLH domain proteins are non-covalently anchored to the cell surface via a conserved mechanism involving wall polysaccharide pyruvylation
Stéphane Mesnage, Thierry Fontaine, Tâm Mignot, Muriel Delepierre, Michèle Mock and Agnès Fouet
- The EMBO Journal (2000) 19, 4473 - 4484
- doi:10.1093/emboj/19.17.4473
SLH-anchoring deficient mutants show aberrant morphology. (A) Sedimentation profile of liquid-grown parental (left panel) and 
csaB (right panel) strains. (B) Scanning electron microscopy of parental bacilli (left panel) and long twisted, septate (see arrows) filaments formed by the csaB mutant (right panel). (C) Thin sections showed that more of cell wall material accumulated in the csaB mutant (right panel) than in the parental strain (left panel), suggesting an autolysis defect. Bars represent 2.5 and 0.35 
m in (A) and (B), respectively.
