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Bacterial birth scar proteins mark future flagellum assembly site.
Cell - 10 Mar 2006
Huitema Edgar, Pritchard Sean, Matteson David, Radhakrishnan Sunish Kumar, Viollier Patrick H
Abstract excerpt
Many prokaryotic protein complexes underlie polar asymmetry. In Caulobacter crescentus, a flagellum is built exclusively at the pole that arose from the previous cell division. The basis for this pole specificity is unclear but could involve a cytokinetic birth scar that marks the newborn pole as the flagellum assembly site. We identified two developmental proteins, TipN and TipF, which localize to the division...
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