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...
Main Authors: | Handuo Shi, David A. Quint, Gregory M. Grason, Ajay Gopinathan, Kerwyn Casey Huang |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-03-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14752-9 |
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