Yuya Sasajima

The paper expresses MreB isoforms from Haloplasma in a synthetic bacterium to study motility, finding distinct movement patterns and force directions.

The paper determines the structure of a fibril protein in Spiroplasma using cryo-EM, revealing its helical organization and interactions with MreB filaments.

The paper demonstrates that expressing two bacterial actins in a synthetic minimal bacterium enables swimming motility, suggesting that bacterial actins can generate helical cell shapes and movement.