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The wall-less bacterium Spiroplasma poulsonii builds a polymeric cytoskeleton composed of interacting MreB isoforms

Masson, Florent  
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Pierrat, Xavier  
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Lemaitre, Bruno  
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December 17, 2021
Iscience

A rigid cell wall defines the morphology of most bacteria. MreB, a bacterial homologue of actin, plays a major role in coordinating cell wall biogenesis and defining cell shape. Spiroplasma are wall-less bacteria that robustly grow with a characteristic helical shape. Paradoxal to their lack of cell wall, the Spiroplasma genome contains five homologs of MreB (SpMreBs). Here, we investigate the function of SpMreBs in forming a polymeric cytoskeleton. We found that, in vivo, Spiroplasma maintain a high concentration of all MreB isoforms. By leveraging a heterologous expression system that bypasses the poor genetic tractability of Spiroplasma, we found that SpMreBs produced polymeric filaments of various morphologies. We characterized an interaction network between isoforms that regulate filament formation and patterning. Therefore, our results support the hypothesis where combined SpMreB isoforms would form an inner polymeric cytoskeleton in vivo that shapes the cell in a wall-independent manner.

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