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Identifying Drugs that Affect Polymerization of Bacterial Cytoskeletal Proteins

April 26th, 2024
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1School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, 2Homi Bhabha National Institutes

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Fission yeast is used here as a heterologous host to express bacterial cytoskeletal proteins such as FtsZ and MreB as translational fusion proteins with GFP to visualize their polymerization. Also, compounds that affect polymerization are identified by imaging using a fluorescence microscope.

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