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  2. Peptidoglycan - Wikipedia

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    The peptidoglycan layer is substantially thicker in gram-positive bacteria (20 to 80 nanometers) than in gram-negative bacteria (7 to 8 nanometers). [4] Depending on pH growth conditions, the peptidoglycan forms around 40 to 90% of the cell wall 's dry weight of gram-positive bacteria but only around 10% of gram-negative strains.

  3. Periplasm - Wikipedia

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    [4] [8] In contrast to gram-positive bacteria, all archetypical Gram-negative bacteria are bounded by a cytoplasmic membrane as well as an outer cell membrane; they contain only a thin layer of peptidoglycan (2–3 nm) between these membranes. The presence of both inner and outer cell membranes forms and define the periplasmic space or ...

  4. Gram-negative bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. [1] Their defining characteristic is their cell envelope , which consists of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall sandwiched between an inner ( cytoplasmic ) membrane and an ...

  5. Bacterial cell structure - Wikipedia

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    Gram-positive cell walls are thick and the peptidoglycan (also known as murein) layer constitutes almost 95% of the cell wall in some Gram-positive bacteria and as little as 5-10% of the cell wall in Gram-negative bacteria. The peptidoglycan layer takes up the crystal violet dye and stains purple in the Gram stain.

  6. Gram stain - Wikipedia

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    Gram negative Neisseria gonorrhoeae and pus cells. Gram-negative bacteria generally possess a thin layer of peptidoglycan between two membranes (diderm). [26] Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the most abundant antigen on the cell surface of most gram-negative bacteria, contributing up to 80% of the outer membrane of E. coli and Salmonella. [27]

  7. Muramyl ligase - Wikipedia

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    The peptidoglycan layer gives the cell wall its strength, and helps maintain the overall shape of the cell. The basic peptidoglycan structure of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria comprises a sheet of glycan chains connected by short cross-linking polypeptides.

  8. Cell envelope - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the extracellular forms of these Gram-negative bacteria maintain their structural integrity by relying on a layer of disulfide bond cross-linked cysteine-rich proteins, which is located between cytoplasmic membrane and outer membrane in a manner analogous to the peptidoglycan layer in other Gram-negative bacteria. [4]

  9. Lautropia mirabilis - Wikipedia

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    As a gram negative bacteria, the thin peptidoglycan layer sandwiched by three layers on either side can be observed with an electron microscope. [6] [8] Moreover, the majority of the bacteria within an established colony have a membranous layer that exists between cells. Many fine, Electron-dense granules can typically be observed in the ...