The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 15822-15827

  Van Teeffelen, Sven ^a   Wang, Siyuan ^a   Furchtgott, Leon ^b,c   Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^c   Wingreen, Ned S ^a   Shaevitz, Joshua W ^a   Gitai, Zemer ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cytoskeletal dynamics; Cell growth; Cell wall organization; Peptidoglycan synthesis

Indexed keywords

MREB PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN ROTATION;

ACTINS; AMDINOCILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL WALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPSIPEPTIDES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; KINETICS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; ROTATION; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80052431295     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108999108     Document Type: Article

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