Date Published:

2014 Jun 02

ISSN:

1879-0445

Abstract:

Bacterial species take on a wide variety of shapes, but the mechanisms by which specific shapes evolve have remained poorly understood. A recent study demonstrates that two Asticcacaulis species repurposed an ancestral regulatory protein to rewire the modules of stalk regulation, localization, and synthesis, thereby generating new shapes.

DOI:

10.1016/j.cub.2014.04.022

Alternate Journal:

Curr. Biol.