Exosporium

Definition: The outermost layer of a bacterial endospore, which is loosely attached and located outside of the endospore coat. It is generally composed of protein, carbohydrate, and perhaps lipid.

ID: GO:0043592

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Articles referencing this term

Differential nucleoside recognition during Bacillus cereus 569 (ATCC 10876) spore germination
Ernesto Abel-Santos and Tetyana Dodatko, New J. Chem., 2007 , 31 , 748
DOI: 10.1039/b616695d

Correction of axial chromatic aberrations in confocal Raman microspectroscopic measurements of a single microbial spore
Peter Lasch, Antje Hermelink and Dieter Naumann, Analyst, 2009 , 134 , 1162
DOI: 10.1039/b822553b