Protein localization: reach out and touch the forespore.
Bacterial proteins are typically sorted to subcellular regions with distinct physical characteristics that serve as cellular 'addresses', but many proteins are evidently sorted to specific areas that lack any apparent unique identity. Recent work in Bacillus subtilis suggests that such proteins may be localized by interacting with extracellular domains of proteins in an adjacent cellular compartment.
Ramamurthi
Kumaran S
KS
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, The Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Losick
Richard M
RM
D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000378:metabolism*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002451:Cell Compartmentation; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D013171:Spores, Bacterial / Q000378:metabolism*
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C087294:Q protein, Bacteria