Credit: Photomicrograph/Visualisations: ETH Zurich / Désirée Böck
On the left is an electron tomogram of the head of the shooting mechanism; on the right is a 3D representation made up of a combination of several hundred electron tomograms.
On the left is an amoeba with a bacterium inside a digestive compartment (phagosome) and a bacterium that has freed itself. On the right is a cluster of spring-loaded daggers.
Project employee and doctoral candidate Han-Fei Tsao investigated the infection cycle of Amoebophilus asiaticus in amoeba [In the foreground, an amoebic cell culture in liquid medium].