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Magnetospirillum magneticum strain AMB-1 belongs to the family of magnetotactic bacteria. It possesses a magnetosome chain aligning, with the assistance
of cytoskeleton filaments MamK, along the long axis of the spiral cells. Most fresh M. magneticum AMB-1 cells exhibit spiral morphology. In addition, other cell shapes such as curved and spherical were also observed in
this organism. Interestingly, the spherical cell shape increased steadily with prolonged incubation time. As the actin-like
cytoskeleton protein MreB is involved in maintenance of cell shapes in rod-shaped bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, the correlation between MreB protein levels and cell shape was investigated in this study. Immunoblotting analysis showed
that the quantity of MreB decreased when the cell shape changed along with incubation time. As an internal control, the quantity
of MamA was not obviously changed under the same conditions. Cell shape directs cell-wall synthesis during growth and division.
MreB is required for maintaining the cell shape. Thus, MreB might play an essential role in maintaining the spiral shape of
M. magneticum AMB-1 cells. 相似文献