bdelloplast
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bdelloplast (plural bdelloplasts)
- (biology) A modified cell formed in the host of a parasitic Bdellovibrio bacterium
- 2015 November 3, “Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of a Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugar Hydrolase from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Thus we speculate that Bd-NDPSase periplasmic location might be associated with metabolizing host material in the bdelloplast after the 30 minutes initial invasion of the prey cell.