Chiral twisting in a bacterial cytoskeletal polymer affects filament size and orientation

The actin homolog MreB directs cell-wall insertion and maintains cell shape in many rod-shaped bacteria. Here, Shi et al. perform molecular dynamics simulations for MreB to extract mechanical parameters for inputs into a coarse-grained biophysical polymer model that predicts MreB filament properties...

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Main Authors: Handuo Shi, David A. Quint, Gregory M. Grason, Ajay Gopinathan, Kerwyn Casey Huang
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/efd723093a744b6da7132d60fc3c5c6d
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