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The Min-protein oscillations in Escherichia coli : an example of self-organized cellular protein waves

Author(s) -

Lukas Wettmann,

Karsten Kruse

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753

H-Index - 272

eISSN - 1471-2970

pISSN - 0962-8436

DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2017.0111

Subject(s) - escherichia coli , cytoplasm , division (mathematics) , spiral (railway) , planar , self organization , cell division , biology , biophysics , theme (computing) , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , cell , genetics , computer science , engineering , mathematics , gene , ecology , mechanical engineering , operating system , computer graphics (images) , arithmetic

In the rod-shaped bacteriumEscherichia coli , selection of the cell centre as the division site involves pole-to-pole oscillations of the proteins MinC, MinD and MinE. This spatio-temporal pattern emerges from interactions among the Min proteins and with the cytoplasmic membrane. Combining experimental studiesin vivo andin vitro together with theoretical analysis has led to a fairly good understanding of Min-protein self-organization. In different geometries, the system can, in addition to standing waves, also produce travelling planar and spiral waves as well as coexisting stable stationary distributions. Today it stands as one of the best-studied examples of cellular self-organization of proteins.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Self-organization in cell biology’.

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