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SUBMITTER: Wong F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504236 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wong Felix F Garner Ethan C EC Amir Ariel A
eLife 20190218
MreB is an actin homolog that is essential for coordinating the cell wall synthesis required for the rod shape of many bacteria. Previously we have shown that filaments of MreB bind to the curved membranes of bacteria and translocate in directions determined by principal membrane curvatures to create and reinforce the rod shape (Hussain et al., 2018). Here, in order to understand how MreB filament dynamics affects their cellular distribution, we model how MreB filaments bind and translocate on m ...[more]