The Bactofilin Cytoskeleton Protein BacM of Myxococcus xanthus Forms an Extended β-Sheet Structure Likely Mediated by Hydrophobic Interactions

• David M. Zuckerman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David M. Zuckerman, Lauren E. Boucher

  Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Lauren E. Boucher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David M. Zuckerman, Lauren E. Boucher

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kefang Xie,

  Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Harald Engelhardt,

  Affiliation Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried, Germany

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• Jürgen Bosch,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Egbert Hoiczyk

  * E-mail: ehoiczy1@jhu.edu

  Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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