Congratulations to the team of Sonja Albers from the University of Freiburg, who demonstrated in a recent article that the MinD4 protein oscillates along the cell axis and stimulates the formation of chemosensory arrays and archaella in the archaeon H. volcanii. We greatly appreciate that Marta Rodriguez-Franco, head of our EM unit, could contribute to this nice story.
Nußbaum P, Ithurbide S, Walsh JC, Patro M, Delpech F, Rodriguez-Franco M, Curmi PMG, Duggin IG, Quax TEF, Albers SV (2020).
An Oscillating MinD Protein Determines the Cellular Positioning of the Motility Machinery in Archaea.
Current Biology, doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.073
