MreB Filaments Create Rod Shape By Aligning Along Principal Membrane Curvature.
Saman Hussain, Carl N. Wivagg, Piotr Szwedziak, Felix Wong, Kaitlin Schaefer, Thierry Izoré, Lars D. Renner, Yingjie Sun, Alexandre W. Bisson Filho, Suzanne Walker, Ariel Amir, Jan Löwe, Ethan C. Garner
The paper shows MreB filaments align along principal membrane curvature to create rod shape in bacteria, supported by biophysical modeling and experimental observations.
bioRxiv · Oct 2, 2017 · PreprintMicrobiology