bdelloplast

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noun

A modified cell formed in the host of a parasitic Bdellovibrio bacterium

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Meanings

nounbdelloplast (plural bdelloplasts)

plural bdelloplasts

  1. biologyA modified cell formed in the host of a parasitic Bdellovibrio bacterium

    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.

    2015 November 3, “Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of a Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugar Hydrolase from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From bdello- + -plast.

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