bdelloplast

English

Etymology

bdello- +‎ -plast

Noun

bdelloplast (plural bdelloplasts)

1. (biology) A modified cell formed in the host of a parasitic Bdellovibrio bacterium
   • 2015 November 3, “Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of a Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugar Hydrolase from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Thus we speculate that Bd-NDPSase periplasmic location might be associated with metabolizing host material in the bdelloplast after the 30 minutes initial invasion of the prey cell.