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Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

We investigate the
▪️function and conservation of the bactofilin MTS
▪️cooperativity of membrane binding and polymerization
▪️role of client proteins in bactofilin assembly

Thanks to the Schäfer and Bange labs as well as our HDX and EM facilities for the fruitful collaboration!

Now published as a Version of Record, with various new results compared to the initial preprint:

Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin

Available at:
elifesciences.org/articles/100...

@synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social

New PrePrint from the Vecchiarelli and Mosalaganti (@shyamalm.bsky.social) labs! 🧵

Collaboration with the Giessen and Pi labs

Congratulations to co-first authors Y Hoang (@hoanghamyy.bsky.social) and Pankaj Jadhav!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

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Talk slots full but we can take late breaking poster abstracts until August 7th. Hope to see you in York to hear about your chromosome story 🧬🦠🧫

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One of the most exciting discoveries from our lab so far is now online as a preprint!

Read a story on how the ParMR and Min systems started to collaborate to create the CorMR cytoskeleton, which now controls cell shape in multicellular cyanobacteria:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Congratulations to Rebecca Hinrichs on her first senior-author paper! @synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social

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How does your favorite species elongate? 🧵 "Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species". Happy to see this paper in print @natcomms.nature.com. Nice work by @mariedelaby.bsky.social, Liu Yang et al. See original 🧵, different colours, same data and conclusions.

A new study from the Takacs lab, showing that bactofilins are essential for viability and critical for cell shape in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Spatiotemporal regulation of cellular processes by CTP-switches in bacteria

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Interested in the bacterial ParABS DNA segregation system? Then have a look at our latest preprint... 🧬

Thanks to the Hennig and Bange groups for the great collaboration!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Congratulations, Geraldine!