a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape
Word origin
[1915–20; sphero- + -plast]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: GI, camouflage, costar, markup, supernationalism
Examples of 'spheroplast' in a sentence
spheroplast
Our findings indicate that spheroplast enlargement varies between different organisms with respect to gene expression.
Sawako Takahashi, Ayana Takayanagi, Yurika Takahashi, Taku Oshima, Hiromi Nishida 2016, 'Comparison of transcriptomes of enlarged spheroplasts of Erythrobacter litoralisand Lelliottia amnigena', AIMS Microbiologyhttp://www.aimspress.com/microbiology/article/786/fulltext.html. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Removing the cell wall creates a round spheroplast with a disorganized cytoskeleton and depolarized growth proteins.
Felice D Kelly, Paul Nurse 2011, 'De novo growth zone formation from fission yeast spheroplasts.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3240611?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Ciprofloxacin, meropenem, ceftazidime, and piperacillin caused elongation in susceptible cells, while meropenem also induced spheroplast and bulge formation.
Yoshimi Matsumoto, Shouichi Sakakihara, Andrey Grushnikov, Kazuma Kikuchi, HiroyukiNoji, Akihito Yamaguchi, Ryota Iino, Yasushi Yagi, Kunihiko Nishino 2016, 'A Microfluidic Channel Method for Rapid Drug-Susceptibility Testing of Pseudomonasaeruginosa', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0148797. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)