EMBO Member
Jan Löwe
EMBO 2004
Former EMBO Young Investigator (2001)
MRC LMB, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Bacterial cytoskeleton and molecular machines
We investigate the structure and function of filamentous proteins in bacteria that participate in phenomena such as cell division, chromosome segregation, cell wall synthesis and intracellular motility.
Keywords
Cytoskeleton / tubulin / actin / FtsZ / divisome / MreB / ParM / TubZ / molecular microbiology / bacterial cell division / DNA segregation