"Purple Membrane" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Functionally and structurally differentiated, purple-pigmented regions of the cytoplasmic membrane of some strains of Halobacterium halobium. The membrane develops under anaerobic conditions and is made almost entirely of the purple pigment BACTERIORHODOPSINS. (From Singleton & Sainsbury Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 2d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D018717
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.149.648 A20.871
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| Concept/Terms |
Purple Membrane- Purple Membrane
- Membrane, Purple
- Membranes, Purple
- Purple Membranes
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Reliability of phases retrieved from 400-kV spot-scan images of purple membranes acquired on a slow-scan CCD camera. J Microsc. 1997 Dec; 188(Pt 3):285-9.