ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2008
Spatial regulators for bacterial cell division self-organize into surface waves in vitro.
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- Diffusiophoresis in porous media saturated with a mixture of electrolytes.Nanoscale advances · 2025Article
- Chemical waves in reaction-diffusion networks of small organic molecules.Chemical science · 2025Article
- Robust and resource-optimal dynamic pattern formation of Min proteins in vivo.Nature physics · 2025Article
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- Self-organized spatial targeting of contractile actomyosin rings for synthetic cell division.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Cell-free expression with a quartz crystal microbalance enables rapid, dynamic, and label-free characterization of membrane-interacting proteins.Communications biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
In the bacterium Escherichia coli, the Min proteins oscillate between the cell poles to select the cell center as division site. This dynamic pattern has been proposed to arise by self-organization of these proteins, and several models have suggested a reaction-diffusion type mechanism. Here, we found that the Min proteins spontaneously formed planar surface waves on a flat membrane in vitro. The formation and maintenance of these patterns, which extended for hundreds of micrometers, required adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), and they persisted for hours. We present a reaction-diffusion model of the MinD and MinE dynamics that accounts for our experimental observations and also captures the in vivo oscillations.
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