ArticleGenes & development2009
Bacterial intermediate filaments: in vivo assembly, organization, and dynamics of crescentin.
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- Affinity to cellulose is a shared property among coiled-coil domains of intermediate filaments and prokaryotic intermediate filament-like proteins.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Prokaryotic cytoskeletons: protein filaments organizing small cells.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2018Review
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- Shapeshifting to Survive: Shape Determination and Regulation in Caulobacter crescentus.Trends in microbiology · 2017Review
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- Shedding light on biology of bacterial cells.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Dynamical Localization of DivL and PleC in the Asymmetric Division Cycle of Caulobacter crescentus: A Theoretical Investigation of Alternative Models.PLoS computational biology · 2015Article
- Intergenerational continuity of cell shape dynamics in Caulobacter crescentus.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Molecular mechanisms for the evolution of bacterial morphologies and growth modes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Review
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae, an underutilized model for bacterial cell biology.Journal of bacteriology · 2014Review
- A Caulobacter MreB mutant with irregular cell shape exhibits compensatory widening to maintain a preferred surface area to volume ratio.Molecular microbiology · 2014Article
- Dynamic gradients of an intermediate filament-like cytoskeleton are recruited by a polarity landmark during apical growth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- Multidimensional view of the bacterial cytoskeleton.Journal of bacteriology · 2013Review
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Abstract
Crescentin, which is the founding member of a rapidly growing family of bacterial cytoskeletal proteins, was previously proposed to resemble eukaryotic intermediate filament (IF) proteins based on structural prediction and in vitro polymerization properties. Here, we demonstrate that crescentin also shares in vivo properties of assembly and dynamics with IF proteins by forming stable filamentous structures that continuously incorporate subunits along their length and that grow in a nonpolar fashion. De novo assembly of crescentin is biphasic and involves a cell size-dependent mechanism that controls the length of the structure by favoring lateral insertion of crescentin subunits over bipolar longitudinal extension when the structure ends reach the cell poles. The crescentin structure is stably anchored to the cell envelope, and this cellular organization requires MreB function, identifying a new function for MreB and providing a parallel to the role of actin in IF assembly and organization in metazoan cells. Additionally, analysis of an MreB localization mutant suggests that cell wall insertion during cell elongation normally occurs along two helices of opposite handedness, each counterbalancing the other's torque.
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