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Understanding the shapes of bacteria just got more complicated.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Oct 2006
Beveridge Terry J
Abstract excerpt
The paper by Briegel et al. in this issue of Molecular Microbiology uses advanced cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryoTEM) techniques to reveal four separate locations of cytoplasmic filament bundles in Caulobacter crescentus. Intuitively, these filaments should be rather rigid protein structures and composed of previously identified shape-forming proteins, such as crescentin or MreB. Yet, deletion mutants...
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