Iâm way late with this on March 9th but Iâve watched Paul Kangas for years! He has always epitomized the NBR to me and I will sorely miss him. He was always sharp and crisp and on point.
the bacterial cytoskeleton and cell shape-determining proteins such as MreC, function in concert to orches-trate the localization of cell wall synthetic complexes resulting in spatially co-ordinated and efficient pepti-doglycan synthetic activity. Introduction The distinct morphology of most bacterial cells is dictated by the architecture of the peptidoglycan cell wall. In Gram-negative bacteria, the cell wall is thought to be a single
MreC appears to act as a bridge between the MreB cytoskeleton and the murein biosynthetic machinery, as shown in studies of E. coli and B. subtilis (107, 113). The MreD protein is also likely to be a component of the bridging complex in organisms that contain an mreD gene, such as E. coli and B. subtilis.