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Aerial morphogenesis: enter the chaplins
1School of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Laboratories, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|September 19, 2003
Abstract:
Filamentous bacteria produce aerial structures to allow spores to be dispersed. A new class of secreted, surface-active proteins called chaplins has been identified in Streptomyces coelicolor. Chaplins form unusual amyloid-like fibrils and act cooperatively to bring about aerial development.