ovococcus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ovo- -coccus; cf. ovoid (“oval; egg-shaped”).[1]
Noun
[edit]ovococcus (plural ovococci)
- (microbiology) An ellipsoid-shaped bacterium
- 2012, Richard Wheeler, Peptidoglycan architecture and dynamics in Gram-positive bacteria (thesis, University of Sheffield):
- The architecture in Gram-positive cocci and ovococci is largely uncharacterised, In this study, atomic force microscopy (AFM) of purified sacculi of three species of ovococcus was combined with biochemical analysis and super resolution fluorescence microscopy.
- 2012, Streptococcal Infections—Advances in Research and Treatment, →ISBN:
- According to the authors of recent research from Bloomington, Indiana, “The connection between peptidoglycan remodeling and cell division is poorly understood in ellipsoid-shaped ovococcus bacteria, such as the human respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- 2013, Mucoproteins—Advances in Research and Application, →ISBN:
- This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the mechanisms and regulation of peptidoglycan (PG) biosynthesis that result in ellipsoid-shaped, ovococcus Streptococcus cells.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ André Zapun, Thierry Vernet, Mariana G[omes de] Pinho (2008 February 11) “The different shapes of cocci”, in FEMS Microbiology Reviews, volume 32, number 2 (March 2008), , →ISSN, pages 345–360: “To the authors' knowledge, there is no widely accepted term to distinguish ellipsoid bacteria from spherical cocci and therefore the term ovococcus is proposed to designate these bacteria with ovoid shape.”