Cyanobacterial Cell Walls: News from an Unusual Prokaryotic Envelope

Most modern reviews about bacterial cell wall properties use the traditional classification of prokaryotic envelopes as either gram positive or gram negative ([27][1], [30][2]). Mainly based on the variance of their peptidoglycan architecture, both envelope types show a characteristic difference

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