Mengke Wei, Chenyang Han, Xiujuan Zhou, Tianyang Tong, Jing Zhang, Xinmiao Ji, Peng Zhang, Yanqi Zhang, Yan Liu, Xin Zhang, Tiantian Cai, Can Xie
The morphology is the consequence of evolution and adaptation. Escherichia coli is rod-shaped bacillus with regular dimension of about 1.5 μm long and 0.5 μm wide. Many shape-related genes have been identified and used in morphology engineering of this bacteria. However, little is known about if specific metabolism and metal irons could modulate bacteria morphology. Here in this study, we discovered filamentous shape change of E. coli cells overexpressing pigeon MagR, a putative magnetoreceptor and extremely conserved iron-sulfur protein...
September 2024: Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology