Bacterial Mating Protein in Bacillus Subtilis
Bacterial Mating Protein in Bacillus Subtilis
Submitted by Melanie Berkmen of the Grossman Laboratory in the Department of Biology
MIT Department of Biology
Melanie Berkmen
Grossman Laboratory, Department of Biology
Epi-Fluorescence Micrograph
"This image is of the bacterium we study -- Bacillus subtilis. It shows the bacterial mating ATPas ConE (green) associating with the membrane (red), predominantly at the cell poles. Nucleoid DNA is shown in blue."