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Escherichia coli
Author(s) -
Goodsell David S.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
biochemistry and molecular biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1539-3429
pISSN - 1470-8175
DOI - 10.1002/bmb.20345
Subject(s) - escherichia coli , context (archaeology) , molecular cell biology , bacteria , computational biology , biology , chemistry , biochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , gene , paleontology
Diverse biological data may be used to create illustrations of molecules in their cellular context. I describe the scientific results that support a recent textbook illustration of an Escherichia coli cell. The image magnifies a portion of the bacterium at one million times, showing the location and form of individual macromolecules. Results from biochemistry, electron microscopy, and X‐ray crystallography were used to create the image.

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