TY - JOUR
T1 - Functional taxonomy of bacterial hyperstructures
AU - Norris, Vic
AU - Den Blaauwen, Tanneke
AU - Cabin-Flaman, Armelle
AU - Doi, Roy H.
AU - Harshey, Rasika
AU - Janniere, Laurent
AU - Jimenez-Sanchez, Alfonso
AU - Ding, Jun Jin
AU - Levin, Petra Anne
AU - Mileykovskaya, Eugenia
AU - Minsky, Abraham
AU - Saier, Milton
AU - Skarstad, Kirsten
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - The levels of organization that exist in bacteria extend from macromolecules to populations. Evidence that there is also a level of organization intermediate between the macromolecule and the bacterial cell is accumulating. This is the level of hyperstructures. Here, we review a variety of spatially extended structures, complexes, and assemblies that might be termed hyperstructures. These include ribosomal or "nucleolar" hyperstructures; transertion hyperstructures; putative phosphotransferase system and glycolytic hyperstructures; chemosignaling and flagellar hyperstructures; DNA repair hyperstructures; cytoskeletal hyperstructures based on EF-Tu, FtsZ, and MreB; and cell cycle hyperstructures responsible for DNA replication, sequestration of newly replicated origins, segregation, compaction, and division. We propose principles for classifying these hyperstructures and finally illustrate how thinking in terms of hyperstructures may lead to a different vision of the bacterial cell.
AB - The levels of organization that exist in bacteria extend from macromolecules to populations. Evidence that there is also a level of organization intermediate between the macromolecule and the bacterial cell is accumulating. This is the level of hyperstructures. Here, we review a variety of spatially extended structures, complexes, and assemblies that might be termed hyperstructures. These include ribosomal or "nucleolar" hyperstructures; transertion hyperstructures; putative phosphotransferase system and glycolytic hyperstructures; chemosignaling and flagellar hyperstructures; DNA repair hyperstructures; cytoskeletal hyperstructures based on EF-Tu, FtsZ, and MreB; and cell cycle hyperstructures responsible for DNA replication, sequestration of newly replicated origins, segregation, compaction, and division. We propose principles for classifying these hyperstructures and finally illustrate how thinking in terms of hyperstructures may lead to a different vision of the bacterial cell.
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U2 - 10.1128/MMBR.00035-06
DO - 10.1128/MMBR.00035-06
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17347523
AN - SCOPUS:33947414806
SN - 1092-2172
VL - 71
SP - 230
EP - 253
JO - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
JF - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
IS - 1
ER -