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The methanogenic bacterium Methanospirillum hungatei exists as filaments which have a very unusual cell wall architecture, comprising a long cylindrical sheath within which there may be many individual cells arranged in a line. The sheath has a two-dimensional crystalline structure, and the cells are separated within the tube by septa which also have a crystalline structure. We have used computer image processing of tilted-view electron micrographs to analyze the structure in negative stains of both of these components in three dimensions. The repeating unit of the sheath consists of four approximately spherical domains ca. 2.5 nm in diameter arranged in a row. Based on observations of the type of lattice imperfections that occur, we suggest that each of the domains represents a separate polypeptide subunit and that the subunits are incorporated into the wall one by one. The septa are circular plates of remarkably constant size. They are normally found as double layers. They are hexagonally symmetrical and consist of trimerically associated subunits which interact about dimer axes to form an open network containing large pores ca. 15 nm in diameter.

Three-dimensional architecture of the cell sheath and septa of Methanospirillum hungatei