A divergent CheW confers plasticity to nucleoid-associated chemosensory arrays
A. Guiseppi, J.-J. Vicente, J. Herrou, A. Barneoud, A. Moine, L. Espinosa, M.-J. Basse, V. Molle, T. Mignot, P. Roche, E. Mauriello
The paper identifies FrzB, a divergent CheW in M. xanthus, which lacks the CheA-interacting region and functions upstream of FrzCD to enable distributed chemosensory arrays on the nucleoid, conferring plasticity to chemosensory systems.
bioRxiv · Oct 25, 2019Microbiology