The first 258 amino acids of the N terminus are necessary and sufficient for targeting the protein to the division plane. The Bejerano Lab focuses on a fundamental question in Human Genomics: the relationship between geno(me)type and phenotype. Therefore, this structurally dynamic S-layer responds to environmental conditions as an ion sensor and protects Caulobacter from calcium deficiency stress, a unique mechanism of bacterial adaptation. Therefore phospholipid synthesis is required for stalk elongation in C. crescentus. Jacobs, C., Domian, I. J., Maddock, J. R., Shapiro, L. The CtrA response regulator mediates temporal control of gene expression during the Caulobacter cell cycle, Protein localization during the Caulobacter crescentus cell cycle. A general mechanism in bacteria to rescue stalled ribosomes and to clear the cell of incomplete polypeptides involves an RNA species, tmRNA (SsrA), which functions as both a tRNA and an mRNA. The cell cycle-regulatory pathways that produce specific temporal TE patterns are separate from-but highly coordinated with-the transcriptional cell cycle circuitry, suggesting that the scheduling of translational regulation is organized by the same cyclical regulatory circuit that directs the transcriptional control of the Caulobacter cell cycle. To investigate the interaction between membrane synthesis and DNA replication during a single cell cycle, we moved the gpsA mutation into a synchronizable, but otherwise wild-type, strain. CHAMPER, R., Bryan, R., Gomes, S. L., Purucker, M., Shapiro, L. ANALYSIS OF THE PLEIOTROPIC REGULATION OF FLAGELLAR AND CHEMOTAXIS GENE-EXPRESSION IN CAULOBACTER-CRESCENTUS BY USING PLASMID COMPLEMENTATION. Carbon starvation activates DnaA proteolysis (B. Gorbatyuk and G. T. Marczynski, Mol. While not directly discernable, PopZ fills a region at the cell poles that is devoid of electron-dense ribosomes. We identified two point mutation classes affecting phosphotransfer and cell morphology: one that globally impairs ChpT phosphotransfer, and a second that mediates partner selection. This osmolality-dependent relocation to the division apparatus is initiated within less than a minute, while restoration to the patchy localization pattern is dependent on cell growth and takes 1 to 2 generations. The mutant strain, AE6000 , was altered in both of these regulatory functions. The synthesis of a single polar flagellum is restricted to the swarmer pole of the predivisional cell by a genetic hierarchy comprising at least 50 genes whose transcription is regulated by novel and ubiquitous promoters, cognate sigma factors, and auxiliary transcriptional regulators. Growth on lactose and galactose depends on induction of specific enzymes. Research in the Villeneuve lab is aimed at understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the faithful inheritance and function of eukaryotic chromosomes. An additional level of control was revealed when it was found that an interruption of DNA replication caused the inhibition of flaS transcription. A., Deacon, A. M., Shapiro, L. Cell fate regulation governed by a repurposed bacterial histidine kinase. Wheeler, R. T., Gober, J. W., Shapiro, L. DNA replication - Bringing the mountain to mohammed, Microbial asymmetric cell division: Localization of cell fate determinants, A membrane-associated protein, FliX, is required for an early step in Caulobacter flagellar assembly. View details for Web of Science ID 000167833700095, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC31192. We predict that with any phenotype independent of energy production, however, pH-sensitive mutants will be recovered only in surface elements. The structural organization of the flagellar filament of Caulobacter crescentus, as revealed by immunoelectron microscopy, shows five antigenically distinct regions within the hook-filament complex. CtrA binds to and silences the origin. Systems architecture of a bacterial cell cycle, Ribosome Profiling of the Caulobacter Cell-Cycle. View details for DOI 10.1128/JB.185.16.4997-5002.2003, View details for Web of Science ID 000184692800037, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC166474. Overall, the core circuit topology of the Fix network is conserved between the rhizobia and C. crescentus, a free-living aerobe that cannot fix nitrogen, respire anaerobically, or metabolize hydrogen. There are many instances of differential polar functions; among these is the preferential use of old poles when attaching to host cells as in the interaction of Bradyrhizobium with plant root hairs (3) or the polar pili-mediated attachment of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogen to tracheal epithelia (4). Twenty-three percent of the cell cycle-regulated promoters were found to be under the combinatorial control of two or more of the global regulators. Structure of Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicles revealed by cryo-ET. How this is brought about remains one of the most fundamental questions of developmental biology. View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04912.x, View details for Web of Science ID 000233170700012. We show that Caulobacter crescentus makes use of and requires a dedicated mechanism to initiate chromosome segregation. Transposition of the Tn5-VB32 promoter probe into the Caulobacter crescentus chromosome generated auxotrophic and motility mutants and Southern blot analysis of DNA from these mutants showed Tn5-VB32 sequences in random-sized chromosomal restriction fragments. Brooklyn College, cum laude 1966 - Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine . steve.nordeen@uchsc.edu IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The Shapiro Design Lab is an open resource to the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Michigan. This is the first observation of a structural RNA that is cell cycle regulated. CcrM is essential for viability in both of these organisms, and we show here that it is also essential in Brucella abortus. Hancock. The HipBA2 module senses different types of stress conditions by increasing the intracellular level of tryptophan, which in turn breaks the tryptophan-glutamine balance and induces glutamine deprivation. Shapiro, L., FRANZE DE FERNANDEZ, M. T., August, J. T. August, J. T., Banerjee, A. K., EOYANG, L., DEFERNAN, M. T., Hori, K., Kuo, C. H., RENSING, U., Shapiro, L. PHYSICAL STUDIES ON STRUCTURE OF YEAST MITOCHONDRIAL DNA. Pulse-labeled swarmer cells exhibited a higher proportion of phosphatidic acid and a lower proportion of phosphatidylglycerol. Although the newly replicated origin regions of the chromosome are rapidly moved to opposite cell poles by an active process, the replisome appears to be an untethered replication factory that is passively displaced towards the center of the cell by the newly replicated DNA. Together, PopZ and SpmX assemble into a cooligomeric network that forms the basis for a polar microdomain that coordinates bacterial cell polarity. The Caulobacter ffs gene was shown to be functionally comparable to the Escherichia coli ffs gene by complementation. Caulobacter crescentus contains a single chromosome that is replicated once during a defined period in the cell cycle. Correct positioning of the division plane is a prerequisite for the generation of daughter cells with a normal chromosome complement. Site-directed mutagenesis and gel mobility shift assays identified a binding site at -100 from the transcription start site for a trans-acting protein, RF-2, that functions to partially activate flbN transcription at a defined time in the cell cycle. The presence of a plasmid containing the flaYE region allowed the mutant strains to swim and to exhibit chemotaxis, to synthesize increased amounts of the flagellins, to methylate their "methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins" (MCPs), and to regain wild-type levels of methyltransferase activity. Caulobacter crescentus was found to have a DNA methyltransferase, CcrM, that methylates the adenine base of the HinfI recognition sequence, GANTC. In Caulobacter crescentus, CtrA is essential and is a global regulator of multiple cell cycle functions. Understanding the order of divisome assembly would inform models of the interactions among its components and their respective functions. B., Cohen, M., Delli-Santi, M., Fennell, C., Leinberry, C., Husband, J., Ladd, A., Seitz, W. R., Constanz, B. Transcript D appears to initiate at a minor promoter within the terminally redundant region of the genome preceding the A promoter. The nucleoid was formerly perceived to be an amorphous entity divided into ill-defined domains of supercoiling that are randomly deposited in the cell. View details for Web of Science ID A1973O437500058. The start site of the fliLM operon lies 166 bp from the divergently transcribed flaCBD operon that encodes several basal body genes. Our high-throughput screening methodology can be adapted readily to any sequenced bacterial species, opening the potential for databases of localization regulatory networks across species, and investigation of localization network phylogenies. Biomolecular enhancers for fUS. View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.0604554103, View details for Web of Science ID 000239327200022, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC1544152. CtrA binds to and silences the origin of replication in swarmer cells. Like Dam in the enterobacteria, CcrM plays a regulatory role in Caulobacter crescentus and Rhizobium meliloti. A major goal is to define the role of one of these inhibitors, p16ink4a in the cellular response to DNA damage. We show that it is the division process that draws Pbp2 to midcell in the absence of MreB's regulation, because cells depleted of the tubulin homolog FtsZ maintain a helical Pbp2 localization in the presence of A22. The membrane-bound DivJ and PleC histidine kinases, which are asymmetrically localized at the opposite poles of the predivisional cell, control the temporal and spatial localization of DivK. Dynamic protease localization mediated by a phospho-signaling pathway is a novel mechanism to integrate spatial and temporal control of bacterial cell cycle progression. As a result of the altered genetic structure, these tmRNAs are composed of two distinct RNA molecules. One of these shares a promoter motif with several genes expressed at the swarmer-to-stalked cell transition; while another appears to be controlled by the CtrA global transcriptional regulator. Achieving cryogenic super-resolution microscopy requires the ability to control the sparsity of emissive labels at cryogenic temperatures. We designated one of these genes urcA (for uranium response in caulobacter). The released flagellum is composed of a filament, hook, and rod. In this paper we report the isolation, characterization and genetic analysis of several C. crescentus mutants altered in membrane lipid synthesis. Phage phiCb5 was studied with respect to the physical and chemical properties of both the phage and its RNA. Shapiro-Wilk W 0.892104 Pr < W 0.0247 Kolmogorov-Smirnov D 0.184061 Pr > D 0.0626 Cramer-von Mises W-Sq 0.096145 Pr > W-Sq 0.1214 Anderson-Darling A-Sq 0.635161 Pr > A-Sq 0.0876 Coffee: clear evidence against normality: Tests for Normality Test Statistic p Value Shapiro-Wilk W 0.662344 Pr < W <0.0001 Kolmogorov-Smirnov D 0.262742 Pr > D Lauren Shapiro's profile, publications, research topics, and co-authors. Regulation of the Caulobacter cell cycle. This 37,000 Mr heat-shock protein might be related to the E. coli 32,000 Mr heat-shock sigma subunit. The region of the chromosome defined by flaE mutations contains at least one flagellin structural gene and appears to regulate flagellin synthesis and flagellar assembly. The C. crescentus sigma32 homolog, predicted to be a 33.7-kDa protein, is 42% identical to E. coli sigma32 and cross-reacts with a monoclonal antibody to E. coli sigma32. View details for Web of Science ID 000170907900034. Move data into a SAS library. Our results revealed a picture of divisome assembly with unprecedented temporal resolution. We report the design and application of HaloTag-based target-specific azido DCDHFs, a class of photoactivatable push-pull fluorogens which produce bright fluorescent labels suitable for single-molecule superresolution imaging in live bacterial and fixed mammalian cells. Viollier, P. H., Thanbichler, M., McGrath, P. T., West, L., Meewan, M., McAdams, H. H., Shapiro, L. The topoisornerase IV ParC subunit colocalizes with the Caulobacter replisome and is required for polar localization of replication origins, An actin-like gene can determine cell polarity in bacteria, Oscillating global regulators control the genetic circuit driving a bacterial cell cycle. By expressing an inducible roGFP2-PopZ fusion we can visualize individual microdomains in the context of their redox environment. hergenro@illinois.edu View details for DOI 10.1016/j.str.2013.06.024, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC3787845, View details for DOI 10.1126/science.1239975, View details for Web of Science ID 000319344100035. A single start site of transcription was identified during heat shock at 42 degrees C, and the predicted promoter sequence conformed to the consensus heat shock promoters of E. coli. The parS sites, a pair of short contiguous sequence elements known to be involved in chromosome segregation, are positioned at one pole, where they anchor the chromosome to the cell and contribute to the formation of a compact chromatin conformation. Monitoring of a fluorescent marker for CtrA showed that the differential degradation of CtrA in the nascent stalk cell compartment occurs only after the cytoplasm is compartmentalized. Big Moerner Lab crew spanning two generations at the GRC on Single Molecule Approaches to Biology, Mt. The C. crescentus enzyme appeared similar to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa enzyme and unlike the Escherichia coli enzyme with respect to subunit molecular weights and failure to separate into core and sigma components upon phosphocellulose chromatography. View details for Web of Science ID 000084010000013. The assembly of a functional flagellum in the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus requires the protein products of approximately 30 genes expressed in a temporally discrete and spatially distinct manner. Furthermore, the FtsK N terminus is required to either assemble or maintain FtsZ rings at the division plane. Prior growth on glucose results in a delay in enzyme expression and cell cycle arrest at the nonmotile, predivisional stage. In vitro reconstitution experiments with heterologous cell fractions from different cell types showed that swarmer cells contain methyltransferase and their membranes can be methylated. Dr. Weissmans laboratory is working on identifying and characterizing the progression of discrete changes, genetic and epigenetic, that leads to the generation of cancer stem cells (CSCs) from a variety of blood and solid tissue cancers. The CcrM DNA methyltransferase is essential for viability, but it does not appear to be part of a DNA restriction-modification system. In addition, we demonstrate that borinic esters inhibit menaquinone methyltransferase in gram positive bacteria using a new biochemical assay for MenH from Bacillus subtilis. Yeh, Y., Comolli, L. R., Downing, K. H., Shapiro, L., McAdams, H. H. Imaging-Based Identification of a Critical Regulator of FtsZ Protofilament Curvature in Caulobacter. The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus has morphologically and functionally distinct cell poles that undergo sequential changes during the cell cycle. Class II genes are the earliest to be expressed and are activated at a specific time in the cell cycle by the CtrA response regulator. Research in our laboratory is focused on understanding how regulatory information encoded by the genome is integrated with the transcriptional machinery and chromatin context to allow for emergence of form and function during human embryogenesis and evolution, and how perturbations in this process lead to disease. View details for Web of Science ID A1979HV87000036. View details for Web of Science ID 000668756400004. B.S. We report herein a class of boron-containing compounds termed borinic esters that have broad spectrum antibacterial activity with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) in the low microgram/mL range. One reason for this is that the distribution and structure of the proteins is obfuscated by the diffraction limit in standard wide-field and confocal fluorescence imaging. Immunoassays of colonies lysed in situ either by lambda prophage induction or by biochemical means afford a much higher level of sensitivity than the plaque assay probably adequate to detect the production of a few molecules of protein per cell. View details for Web of Science ID A1990EB36200070. In a 135-min cell cycle, the cells were compartmentalized 18 +/- 5 min before the progeny cells separated. Our primary focus is on elucidating the events required for the orderly segregation of homologous chromosomes during meiosis, the crucial process by which diploid germ cells generate haploid gametes. The homologous sequence contains a tandemly repeated tetranucleotide sequence which resembles the repeated sequence at the hot spot for spontaneous mutations in the lacI gene (P. J. Farabaugh, U. Schmeissner, M. Hofer, and J. Miller, J. Mol. Accurate replication and segregation of the bacterial genome are essential for cell cycle progression. In at least two alpha subdivision bacteria, R. meliloti and C. crescentus, CcrM-mediated methylation has important cellular functions. Spatial organization and dynamics of RNase E and ribosomes in Caulobacter crescentus. We confirm that upstream sequences between -81 and -120 base-pairs are necessary for temporal activation, and that transcription also requires sequences at -26 to -46 base-pairs. The diameters of the two upper rings differed, being 32 and 21 nm, respectively. The chemotaxis proteins are synthesized in the predivisional cell and then partition only to the swarmer cell upon division. Transcription of the Caulobacter crescentus phage phi Cd1 genome requires both the host RNA polymerase and a phage-encoded, rifampicin-resistant RNA polymerase. The E. coli GroEL protein and the related protein from C. crescentus were also induced by treatment with hydrogen peroxide. Thus, PopZ undergoes multiple orders of self-assembly, and the formation of an interconnected superstructure is a key feature of polar organization in Caulobacter. Modeling the cell cycle probably requires a top-down modeling approach and a hybrid control system modeling paradigm to treat its combined discrete and continuous characteristics. The flbN-encoded protein has 30.8% identity with the protein encoded by the Salmonella typhimurium basal body L-ring gene, flgH. View details for Web of Science ID A1992KB97700015. An analysis of double mutants containing the fatB503 allele and other mutations in membrane biogenesis demonstrated that the cell cycle of AE6001 blocked at a homeostatic state. About. To define the mechanisms that mediate this temporal and spatial control, fla genes whose products are not known were accessed by the insertion of transposon-carried drug resistance markers. A fragment of DNA containing the neomycin phosphotransferase II (NPT II) gene from Tn5, lacking its promoter region but retaining its translation initiation signal, was inserted into a Tn5 derivative that lacked the entire NPT II gene and a large portion of the IS50L sequence while retaining its ability to transpose. Analysis of the fliX-flgI intergenic region revealed an arrangement of cis-acting elements similar to that of another set of Caulobacter class II and class III flagellar genes, fliL-flgF, that is also divergently transcribed. The N-terminal proteolytic determinant is predicted to reside on the surface of the receiver domain in beta-sheet 2 and alpha-helix 2. We quantify these dynamics and determine the FtsZ depolymerization time to be <100 ms. We image the Z-ring in live and fixed C. crescentus cells at different stages of the cell cycle and find that the FtsZ superstructure is dynamic with the cell cycle, forming an open shape during the stalked stage and a dense focus during the pre-divisional stage. bioRxiv. The integration of these spatially and temporally regulated signalling events within a single signalling receptor enables robust orchestration of cell-type-specific gene regulation. Asymmetric cell division generates two daughter cells with distinct characteristics and fates. Here, we show that CckA uses its PAS domains to integrate information from DivL and its own oligomerization state to control the balance of its kinase and phosphatase activities. Alignment of the deduced amino acid sequences revealed that these proteins constitute a highly conserved DNA methyltransferase family. Bacterial chromosomes are generally approximately 1000 times longer than the cells in which they reside, and concurrent replication, segregation, and transcription/translation of this crowded mass of DNA poses a challenging organizational problem. No extrachromosomal elements were found in spite of systematic attempts to detect their presence. DnaA initiates DNA replication and activates the transcription of the next cell-cycle regulator, GcrA. Using cluster analysis of the resulting set of 12-element vectors for each of these strains, we identified 52 strains with mutations that affected the localization pattern of the three tagged proteins. These include the MopD and MopE proteins from Erwinia carotovora, the Spa9 and Spa29 proteins from Shigella flexneri, and the YscS protein from Yersinia pestis. Invitro, the Caulobacter S-layer protein, RsaA, enters the aggregate state at physiological temperatures and low divalent calcium ion concentrations. In addition, I am directing both preclinical and clinical studies of several potent pharmacologic cyclin-dependent kinase . McpA, which forms a part of the chemoreceptor array, acts as a validation structure by being visible under both imaging modalities. View details for Web of Science ID A1979HA45300045. The title of this event is "No, Leftist Idiots Don't Get To Raise My Kids". Membrane phospholipid synthesis was inhibited in Caulobacter crescentus by growth of a glycerol auxotroph in the absence of glycerol or by treatment with the antibiotic cerulenin. We show here that the CpaC protein, which is thought to form the outer membrane pilus secretion channel, and its assembly factor, CpaE, are localized to the cell pole prior to the polymerization of the pilus filament. Research on structure and function of bacterial condensates in the Shapiro Lab. Daniel E. Ho is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and Director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab). Here, we identify a bipartite proteolytic signal in the CtrA response regulator consisting of two determinants that are each necessary but not sufficient for regulated degradation. Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine, A.B. Lucy Shapiro is a Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine where she holds the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Chair in Cancer Research and is the Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine. The pH-conditional beta-galactosidase was used in vivo as a probe for intracellular pH. Sequence analysis of a complementing subclone revealed that this locus encodes at least two proteins that are homologs of the Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli flagellar proteins FliL and FliM. We seek to understand the control of gene expression. Differential protein localization can control DNA replication, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis and is responsible for generating daughter cells with different fates upon cell division. Gahlmann, A., Ptacin, J. L., von Diezmann, A. S., Shapiro, L., Moerner, W. E. Quantitative Registration and Distribution Analysis of Multicolor 3D Super-Resolution Images of Proteins Reveals Nanoscale Spatial Organization. GENERATION OF POLARITY DURING CAULOBACTER CELL-DIFFERENTIATION, PHOSPHORYLATION OF THE BETA'-SUBUNIT OF RNA-POLYMERASE AND OTHER HOST PROTEINS UPON PHI-CD1 INFECTION OF CAULOBACTER-CRESCENTUS, ORGANIZATION AND NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF AN RIBOSOMAL-RNA AND TRANSFER-RNA GENE-CLUSTER FROM CAULOBACTER-CRESCENTUS. Welcome ARGs 2.0! Data are presented that allow the unambiguous identification of a second Fat gene (fatB) in C. crescentus. We seek to understand the mechanisms that regulate self-renewal, proliferation and differentiation in adult stem cell linages. Dynamic chromosome organization and protein localization coordinate the regulatory circuitry that drives the bacterial cell cycle. Strikingly, cells lacking DipM also showed OM blebbing at the division site, at cell poles and along the cell body. By. At the non-permissive temperature, one such mutant, LS439, could not initiate new rounds of DNA replication and arrested primarily as cells with two completed chromosomes Extended incubation at the restrictive temperature resulted in filament formation. The region downstream of the dnaX AUG, which is important for efficient translation, exhibits homology with the corresponding region from the Caulobacter hemE gene adjacent to the replication origin. Using 62 probe-level datasets obtained with a custom-designed Caulobacter crescentus microarray chip, we identify transcriptional start sites of 769 genes, 53 of which are transcribed from multiple start sites. Caulobacter carries out an asymmetric division in which FtsZ and FtsA are stable in stalked cells but degraded in the non-replicative swarmer cell where ClpAP alone degrades FtsA and both ClpAP and ClpXP degrade FtsZ. A major direction in the lab is to understand how such long-range interactions occur, how they achieve target specificity, and how they may be reprogrammed by alterations to the genome sequence. The chemoreceptor-CheW binary complex is polarly localized in the absence of CheA, whereas the chemoreceptor-CheA binary complex is not confined to the cell poles in strains lacking CheW. The relative copy numbers of these proteins are essential for complex formation, as overexpression of SpmX in Caulobacter reorganizes the polarity of the cell, generating ectopic cell poles containing PopZ and DivJ. View details for Web of Science ID 000304978400010, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC3370875. 7/2016. The flagellum and chemotaxis receptor are asymmetrically localized to a single pole in the predivisional cell by coordinated proteolysis and transcriptional regulation. As segregation proceeds, the ParB-bound centromere complex is moved by progressively disassembling ParA from a nucleoid-bound structure. Identification of additional regulatory genes activated by CtrA will serve to directly connect new regulatory modules to the network controlling cell cycle progression. Here we demonstrate live-cell 3D superresolution imaging of Crescentin-eYFP, a cytoskeletal fluorescent protein fusion, colocalized with the surface of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus using a double-helix point spread function microscope. Ph.D., 2015, University of Utah (Oncological Sciences) NIH Developmental Biology Training Grant graduate trainee. gmail.com. Interested applicants should visit https://facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/493432 for our full ad and more information about how to apply. Yuan (Soso) Xue, Bioengineering (09/2015-03/2016). One of these genes, flbN, is required early in the flagellar assembly process. Single-molecule imaging enables biophysical measurements devoid of ensemble averaging, gives enhanced spatial resolution beyond the optical diffraction limit, and enables superresolution reconstruction of structures beyond the diffraction limit. The formation of a flagellum opposite the stalk has been observed by microscope during the differentiation of a stalked cell in preparation for cell division. Meisenzahl, A. C., Shapiro, L., Jenal, U. Mechanisms that control timing of cell cycle and developmental events include transcriptional cascades, regulated phosphorylation and proteolysis of signal transduction proteins, transient genetic asymmetry, and intercellular communication. Zhou, X., Wang, J., Herrmann, J., Moerner, W. E., Shapiro, L. Protein Self-Assembly Drives Surface Layer Biogenesis and Maintenance in C. crescentus. 2007: 506506. 2006-present. Immunoblot analysis showed a transient rise in sigma32 levels after a temperature shift from 30 to 42 degrees C similar to that described for E. coli. We show that DnaA coordinates DNA replication initiation with cell cycle progression by acting as a global transcription factor. 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