Inside Cover: Protein Patterns and Oscillations on Lipid Monolayers and in Microdroplets (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 43/2016)

Abstract

Self-organizing patterns of purified Min proteins, which are spatial regulators of bacterial cell division, and the cell division protein FtsZ were observed when the proteins were reconstituted in emulsion droplets, as reported by P. Schwille and co-workers in their Communication on page 13455 ff. The cover illustrates FtsZ filament bundles (blue) and Min proteins (red) in the lumen of a droplet, with a lipid monolayer (green) at the droplet interface (image by G. Chwastek).