Novel actin-like filament structure from Clostridium tetani

• Main Authors: Balasubramanian, Mohan K., Robinson, Robert C., Ghoshdastider, Umesh, Xue, Bo, Srinivasan, Ramanujam, Tanaka, Toshitsugu, Popp, David, Narita, Akihiro, Lee, Lin Jie
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104413; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17093
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Eukaryotic F-actin is constructed from two protofilaments that gently wind around each other to form a helical polymer. Several bacterial actin-like proteins (Alps) are also known to form F-actin-like helical arrangements from two protofilaments, yet with varied helical geometries. Here, we report a...