Persat Alexandre, Gitai Zemer
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Room 355, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Room 355, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Curr Biol. 2014 Jun 2;24(11):R522-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.04.022.
Bacterial species take on a wide variety of shapes, but the mechanisms by which specific shapes evolve have remained poorly understood. A recent study demonstrates that two Asticcacaulis species repurposed an ancestral regulatory protein to rewire the modules of stalk regulation, localization, and synthesis, thereby generating new shapes.
细菌物种呈现出各种各样的形状,但特定形状进化的机制一直未得到充分理解。最近的一项研究表明,两种Asticcacaulis细菌物种重新利用了一种祖先调节蛋白,以重新连接茎干调节、定位和合成的模块,从而产生了新的形状。