spheroplast

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Etymology

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From sphero- +‎ -plast.

Noun

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spheroplast (plural spheroplasts)

  1. (cytology) A cell from which the cell wall has been removed
    • 2009 March 5, Daisuke Sakakibara et al., “Protein structure determination in living cells by in-cell NMR spectroscopy”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7234, →DOI:
      The localization of overexpressed TTHA1718 was then analysed by measuring 2D 1 H– 15 N HSQC spectra of spheroplasts and periplasmic extract, which were fractionated from TTHA1718-expressing 15 N-labelled cells by lysozyme-EDTA treatment using the conditions described previously 35 .
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