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Bactofilins are essential spatial organizers of peptidoglycan insertion in the Lyme disease spirochete <i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i>

2025-04-09

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi has a distinctive pattern of growth. Newly-born cells elongate by primarily inserting peptidoglycan at mid-cell, while in longer cells, additional insertion sites form at the one-quarter and three-quarter positions along the cell length. It is not known how peptidoglycan insertion is concentrated at these locations in B. burgdorferi. In other ba...

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235b5ace-e5cf-5e23-afff-6579b3e05b77
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10.1101/2025.04.09.647816
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