Actin is a major component of the cytoskeleton in yeast, plant and animal cells, but when did it evolve? The discovery of a bacterial protein that forms actin-like filaments suggests an answer.

Structural and functional homologues of tubulin (FtsZ) and actin (MreB) are now indisputably present in bacteria, overturning the textbook view that the cytoskeleton is unique to eukaryotes.

The bacteria take up close contact to the cell ... Septins are part of the cytoskeleton and serve as a key structural element similar to a modular scaffold that can be flexibly put together ...

An international team of scientists using the latest imaging techniques have revealed how bacterial division proteins build a partition wall across the cell, one molecule at a time. An ...

Most current models assume that archaea and bacteria played a central role ... Asgard archaea have a complex cell shape with an extensive cytoskeleton The remarkable success of the Viennese ...

Studying bacterial interactions with actin is still throwing up ... a protein that cells use to build an intracellular cytoskeleton to aid cell motility, division, and other important processes.

"Cytoskeletal proteins serve as cellular building blocks, and the cytoskeleton has long been thought to consist ... "The CtpS protein is found in all living organisms from bacteria to humans, ...

The role played by the actin cytoskeleton of these compartments and how it responds in the presence of beta-amyloid peptides, the component most commonly associated with Alzheimer's, have been ...

The bacteria take up close contact to the cell ... Septins are part of the cytoskeleton and serve as a key structural element similar to a modular scaffold that can be flexibly put together ...

All life forms on earth are divided into three major domains: eukaryotes, bacteria and archaea ... cell are also based on an extensive cytoskeleton. But how did the evolutionary leap to such ...