Symmetry and scale orient Min protein patterns in shaped bacterial sculptures
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Symmetry and scale orient Min protein patterns in shaped bacterial sculptures
The boundary of a cell defines the shape and scale of its subcellular organization. However, the effects of the cell's spatial boundaries as well as the geometry sensing and scale adaptation of intracellular molecular networks remain largely unexplored. Here, we show that living bacterial cells can be 'sculpted' into defined shapes, such as squares and rectangles, which are used to explore the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Nanotechnology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1748-3387,1748-3395
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.126