ReviewFEMS microbiology reviews2012
A growing family: the expanding universe of the bacterial cytoskeleton.
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- How Does the Spatial Confinement of FtsZ to a Membrane Surface Affect Its Polymerization Properties and Function?Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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- The evolution of spherical cell shape; progress and perspective.Biochemical Society transactions · 2019Review
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- Morphology ofPrzeglad gastroenterologiczny · 2018Review
- Efficient Multiscale Models of Polymer Assembly.Biophysical journal · 2016Article
- Structure of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton Protein Bactofilin by NMR Chemical Shifts and Sequence Variation.Biophysical journal · 2016Article
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- Lipid-linked cell wall precursors regulate membrane association of bacterial actin MreB.Nature chemical biology · 2015Article
- ExpR coordinates the expression of symbiotically important, bundle-forming Flp pili with quorum sensing in Sinorhizobium meliloti.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2014Article
- Crenactin from Pyrobaculum calidifontis is closely related to actin in structure and forms steep helical filaments.FEBS letters · 2014Article
- The bacterial cell division proteins FtsA and FtsZ self-organize into dynamic cytoskeletal patterns.Nature cell biology · 2014Article
- A versatile class of cell surface directional motors gives rise to gliding motility and sporulation in Myxococcus xanthus.PLoS biology · 2013Article
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Abstract
Cytoskeletal proteins are important mediators of cellular organization in both eukaryotes and bacteria. In the past, cytoskeletal studies have largely focused on three major cytoskeletal families, namely the eukaryotic actin, tubulin, and intermediate filament (IF) proteins and their bacterial homologs MreB, FtsZ, and crescentin. However, mounting evidence suggests that these proteins represent only the tip of the iceberg, as the cellular cytoskeletal network is far more complex. In bacteria, each of MreB, FtsZ, and crescentin represents only one member of large families of diverse homologs. There are also newly identified bacterial cytoskeletal proteins with no eukaryotic homologs, such as WACA proteins and bactofilins. Furthermore, there are universally conserved proteins, such as the metabolic enzyme CtpS, that assemble into filamentous structures that can be repurposed for structural cytoskeletal functions. Recent studies have also identified an increasing number of eukaryotic cytoskeletal proteins that are unrelated to actin, tubulin, and IFs, such that expanding our understanding of cytoskeletal proteins is advancing the understanding of the cell biology of all organisms. Here, we summarize the recent explosion in the identification of new members of the bacterial cytoskeleton and describe a hypothesis for the evolution of the cytoskeleton from self-assembling enzymes.
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