New contribution from our TEM unit.
Our EM unit headed by Marta Rodriguez-Franco contributed to a new paper from Sonja Albers’ lab. In the current study, they show that cells of haloarchaea are polarized. The cellular positioning of proteins involved in chemotaxis and motility is spatially and temporally organized in these cells. This suggests the presence of a specific mechanism responsible for the positioning of macromolecular protein complexes in archaea.
Positioning of the Motility Machinery in Halophilic Archaea.
Li Z, Kinosita Y, Rodriguez-Franco M, Nußbaum P, Braun F, Delpech F,
Quax TEF, Albers SV.
MBio. 2019 May 7;10(3). pii: e00377-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00377-19.
