Origins of chemoreceptor curvature sorting in Escherichia coli

Will Draper; Jan Liphardt

doi:10.1038/ncomms14838

Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Origins of chemoreceptor curvature sorting in Escherichia coli

Will Draper,
Jan Liphardt

Affiliations

Will Draper: Biophysics Graduate Group and Department of Physics, University of California
Jan Liphardt: Biophysics Graduate Group and Department of Physics, University of California

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14838
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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It is unclear how bacterial chemoreceptors are reliably targeted to the cell poles. Here, Draper and Liphardt show that chemoreceptor localization is highly sensitive to membrane curvature in live bacteria, and engineer curvature sensitivity into several multi-component synthetic protein complexes.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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