title: The mother of all actins?
abstract: New insights into the structure of filaments made of crenactin, a homolog of actin found in archaea, shed light on how the cytoskeleton might have evolved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: Felipe
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4166-8747
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Merino
authors.affiliation: Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9373-3016
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raunser
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins; D001105:Archaea; D003599:Cytoskeleton; D008870:Microtubules; D041543:Pyrobaculum
chemical_list: D000199:Actins
keywords: Crenarchaea; F-actin; MreB; Pyrobaculum calidifontis; arcade cluster; bacterial cytoskeleton; biophysics; cell biology; structural biology