bdelloplast

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English

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Etymology

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From bdello- +‎ -plast.

Noun

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bdelloplast (plural bdelloplasts)

  1. (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], →DOI:
      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.