Bacterial species have long been classified on the basis of their characteristic cell shapes.
Despite intensive research, the molecular mechanisms underlying the generation and …

The cytoskeleton is a system of intracellular filaments crucial for cell shape, division, and
function in all three domains of life. The simple cytoskeletons of prokaryotes show surprising …

Bacterial actin MreB is one of the key components of the bacterial cytoskeleton. It assembles
into short filaments that lie just underneath the membrane and organize the cell wall …

Here, we measured the concentrations of several ions in cultivated Gram-negative and
Gram-positive bacteria, and analyzed their effects on polymer formation by the actin …

In recent years it has been shown that bacteria contain a number of cytoskeletal structures.
The bacterial cytoplasmic elements include homologs of the three major types of eukaryotic …

For growth and division of rod-shaped bacteria, the cylindrical part of the sacculus has to be
elongated and two new cell poles have to be synthesized. The elongation is performed by a …

Recent advances have shown conclusively that bacterial cells possess distant but true
homologues of actin (MreB, ParM, and the recently uncovered MamK protein). Despite weak …

Bacterial cells contain a variety of structural filamentous proteins necessary for the spatial
regulation of cell shape, cell division, and chromosome segregation, analogous to the …

Work over the past decade has highlighted the pivotal role of the actin-like MreB family of
proteins in the determination and maintenance of rod cell shape in bacteria. Early images of …

In most bacterial cells, cell division is dependent on the polymerization of the FtsZ protein to
form a ring‐like structure (Z‐ring) at the midcell. Despite its essential role, the molecular …