Clostridium taeniosporum spore ribbon-like appendage structure, composition and genes.

Clostridium taeniosporum spores have about 12 large, flat, ribbon-like appendages attached through a common trunk at one spore pole to a previously unknown surface layer outside the coat that is proposed to be called the 'encasement'. Appendages are about 4.5 microm long, 0.5 microm wide and 30 nm t... View More