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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015

Supramolecular structure in the membrane of Staphylococcus aureus.

Jorge García-Lara, Felix Weihs, Xing Ma, Lucas Walker, Roy R Chaudhuri, Jagath Kasturiarachchi, Howard Crossley, Ramin Golestanian, Simon J Foster

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 authors.

Jorge García-LaraThe Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom;
Felix WeihsThe Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom;
Xing MaThe Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom;
Lucas WalkerThe Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom;
Roy R ChaudhuriThe Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom;
Jagath KasturiarachchiThe Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom;
Howard CrossleyThe Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom;
Ramin GolestanianRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom s.foster@sheffield.ac.uk ramin.golestanian@physics.ox.ac.uk.
Simon J FosterThe Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom; s.foster@sheffield.ac.uk ramin.golestanian@physics.ox.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council EGH16083
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All life demands the temporal and spatial control of essential biological functions. In bacteria, the recent discovery of coordinating elements provides a framework to begin to explain cell growth and division. Here we present the discovery of a supramolecular structure in the membrane of the coccal bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, which leads to the formation of a large-scale pattern across the entire cell body; this has been unveiled by studying the distribution of essential proteins involved in lipid metabolism (PlsY and CdsA). The organization is found to require MreD, which determines morphology in rod-shaped cells. The distribution of protein complexes can be explained as a spontaneous pattern formation arising from the competition between the energy cost of bending that they impose on the membrane, their entropy of mixing, and the geometric constraints in the system. Our results provide evidence for the existence of a self-organized and nonpercolating molecular scaffold involving MreD as an organizer for optimal cell function and growth based on the intrinsic self-assembling properties of biological molecules.

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Bacterial ProteinsCell MembraneEntropyLipid MetabolismStaphylococcus aureusBacterial ProteinsmembranemodelMreDPlsYstaphylococcus

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PMID26644587
PMCPMC4697411

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