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The coat morphogenetic protein SpoVID is necessary for spore encasement in Bacillus subtilis.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Nov 2009
Wang Katherine H, Isidro Anabela L, Domingues Lia, Eskandarian Haig A, McKenney Peter T, Drew Kevin, Grabowski Paul, Chua Ming-Hsiu, Barry Samantha N, Guan Michelle, Bonneau Richard, Henriques Adriano O, Eichenberger Patrick
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Endospores formed by Bacillus subtilis are encased in a tough protein shell known as the coat, which consists of at least 70 different proteins. We investigated the process of spore coat morphogenesis using a library of 40 coat proteins fused to green fluorescent protein and demonstrate that two successive steps can be distinguished in coat assembly. The first step, initial localization of proteins to the spore...
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