Thank god for you, Christine! I'm taking a high level (BIO471) course that deals with this exact set of molecular mechanisms for fission but videos on it are extremely rare with this level of detail. Thanks!
Nobody on the entire internet knows how we got the LABEL MreB. Yes we know it's an actin homologue, but WHAT DO THE LETTERS "M"-"r"-"e" and "B" STAND FOR? Can anyone, possibly . . help me here?
The 'Mre' name comes from a paper - Matsuhashi et al where they identified two gene regions which they labelled Mbe and Mrd. The MreB name specifically comes in a paper (Doi et al., 1988) where a specific gene in this Mre region was investigated and given the identifier 'B', giving full name MreB. I can't quickly find the paper by Matsuhashi et al but the link to the Doi et al paper is www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC211501/?page=1 Hope this helps, if you want to get to the bottom of where the 'Mre' name comes from, you may need to find a copy of the Matsuhashi paper. It was published in 1982 so finding it online may be difficult.
Thank you so much. I am so excited to know such a beautiful organization that bacteria have in their body.
Thank god for you, Christine! I'm taking a high level (BIO471) course that deals with this exact set of molecular mechanisms for fission but videos on it are extremely rare with this level of detail. Thanks!
it's been a while, but does anyone know the source of that FtsZ-YFP division movie?
Nicely done!
Great job, thank you very much.
Nobody on the entire internet knows how we got the LABEL MreB. Yes we know it's an actin homologue, but WHAT DO THE LETTERS "M"-"r"-"e" and "B" STAND FOR? Can anyone, possibly . . help me here?
The 'Mre' name comes from a paper - Matsuhashi et al where they identified two gene regions which they labelled Mbe and Mrd. The MreB name specifically comes in a paper (Doi et al., 1988) where a specific gene in this Mre region was investigated and given the identifier 'B', giving full name MreB. I can't quickly find the paper by Matsuhashi et al but the link to the Doi et al paper is www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC211501/?page=1
Hope this helps, if you want to get to the bottom of where the 'Mre' name comes from, you may need to find a copy of the Matsuhashi paper. It was published in 1982 so finding it online may be difficult.
@@OfArmadillo : You're amazing! Thanks!
This is helpful!