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Tilt-series of e. coli carrying the ple7 plasmid carrying YFP-MreB hyper-overexpressed by induction with 1uM IPTG


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SUBMITTER: Matthew Swulius 

PROVIDER: EMPIAR-10115 | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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The helical MreB cytoskeleton in Escherichia coli MC1000/pLE7 is an artifact of the N-Terminal yellow fluorescent protein tag.

Swulius Matthew T MT   Jensen Grant J GJ  

Journal of bacteriology 20120817 23


Based on fluorescence microscopy, the actin homolog MreB has been thought to form extended helices surrounding the cytoplasm of rod-shaped bacterial cells. The presence of these and other putative helices has come to dominate models of bacterial cell shape regulation, chromosome segregation, polarity, and motility. Here we use electron cryotomography to show that MreB does in fact form extended helices and filaments in Escherichia coli when yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) is fused to its N term  ...[more]

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