BIIIIG bacteria...

[Claus S. Kristensen]

Hello all,

We are very interested in bacteria being as big as possible. 
The reason for being interested in those bacteria is that we 
would like to know the intracellular location of certain proteins. 
Evidently, the bigger the easier. We are aware of Epulopiscium 
Fisheloni (Nature 363, p. 239-, 1993 "The largest bacterium"),
as well as the other bacteria mentioned in this paper.

Unfortunately, all those are not available in pure cultures for 
lab. experiments. 

Therefore, we would very much appreciate if anyone out there has 
some relevant references to such bugs. 


Yours sincerely,

Claus Kristensen
Leo Eberl

PS Please reply by e-mail to csk at lm.dth.dk

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