Bacterial Shape: Concave Coiled Coils Curve Caulobacter
Abstract
Bacterial cells exhibit a wide variety of shapes. Recent results indicate that the characteristic crescent shape of Caulobacter crescentus depends upon an inter-mediate filament-like protein that localizes to the concave side of the cell.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- March 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.057
- Bibcode:
- 2004CBio...14.R242M