Nature Cell Biology
2, E199 (2000)
doi:10.1038/35041118
Model is as model doesMichael D. Manson
& Brian J. Cantwell
Michael D. Manson and Brian J. Cantwell are in the
Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station,
Texas 77843 USA. mike@mail.bio.tamu.edu
Kids love models, and on page 792
of this issue Shimizu et al. give us an early Christmas present. Using
plastic replicas of the CheA, CheW, and Tsr protein structures, they assembled
the pieces like a jigsaw puzzle. The pleasing result is a scale model of the
receptor−kinase signalling complex of bacterial chemotaxis.
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