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SUBMITTER: Swulius MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3093302 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Swulius Matthew T MT Chen Songye S Jane Ding H H Li Zhuo Z Briegel Ariane A Pilhofer Martin M Tocheva Elitza I EI Lybarger Suzanne R SR Johnson Tanya L TL Sandkvist Maria M Jensen Grant J GJ
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20110316 4
How rod-shaped bacteria form and maintain their shape is an important question in bacterial cell biology. Results from fluorescent light microscopy have led many to believe that the actin homolog MreB and a number of other proteins form long helical filaments along the inner membrane of the cell. Here we show using electron cryotomography of six different rod-shaped bacterial species, at macromolecular resolution, that no long (> 80 nm) helical filaments exist near or along either surface of the ...[more]