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To: neverdem; DvdMom; grey_whiskers; Ladysmith; Roos_Girl; Silentgypsy; conservative cat; ...

No outer membrane ping.

In the Wikipedia entry, gram-positive bacteria have no outer membrane, you see.


2 posted on 06/23/2011 9:03:47 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
And thus they can be stained vs. those taht do have a outer cell wall that will not take stain. As I recall Gram was the fellow that devised the staining method.
7 posted on 06/23/2011 9:19:18 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: decimon
And thus they can be stained vs. those that do have a outer cell wall that will not take stain. As I recall Gram was the fellow that devised the staining method.
8 posted on 06/23/2011 9:19:27 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: decimon
In the Wikipedia entry, gram-positive bacteria have no outer membrane, you see.

You mean a second lipid bilayer as opposed to the outer later of a lipid bilayer known as a membrane?
9 posted on 06/23/2011 9:20:26 AM PDT by aruanan
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Immunology ping

The results, presented in a series of articles in the esteemed journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, can be used in the development of antibiotics to kill some of the multi-resistant bacterial strains which cause headaches for hospitals worldwide.

I found one of them with a search for the authors.

Chemical synthesis of bacterial lipoteichoic acids: an insight on its biological significance.

17 posted on 06/23/2011 11:55:16 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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