Protein Gradients on the Nucleoid Position the Carbon-fixing Organelles of Cyanobacteria
Joshua S. MacCready, Pusparanee Hakim, Eric J. Young, Longhua Hu, Jian Liu, Katherine W. Osteryoung, Anthony G. Vecchiarelli, Daniel C. Ducat
The paper identifies McdB as a protein that interacts with McdA to create oscillatory patterns on the nucleoid, enabling equidistant positioning of carboxysomes in cyanobacteria.
bioRxiv · May 30, 2018Microbiology