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SUBMITTER: Jiang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4780641 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Shimin S Narita Akihiro A Popp David D Ghoshdastider Umesh U Lee Lin Jie LJ Srinivasan Ramanujam R Balasubramanian Mohan K MK Oda Toshiro T Koh Fujiet F Larsson Mårten M Robinson Robert C RC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160212 9
Here we report the discovery of a bacterial DNA-segregating actin-like protein (BtParM) from Bacillus thuringiensis, which forms novel antiparallel, two-stranded, supercoiled, nonpolar helical filaments, as determined by electron microscopy. The BtParM filament features of supercoiling and forming antiparallel double-strands are unique within the actin fold superfamily, and entirely different to the straight, double-stranded, polar helical filaments of all other known ParMs and of eukaryotic F-a ...[more]