eLIFE, PIOTR SZWEDZIAK ET AL.
Image of the Day: Self-Assembling Spirals
The bacterial proteins FtsA and FtsZ, which create a constricting ring during cell division, form spiral structures on a lipid monolayer in vitro, as shown in this electron micrograph (scale bar 50 nm).
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