spheroplast
English
Etymology
sphero- + -plast
Noun
spheroplast (plural spheroplasts)
- (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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