“…Bactofilin homologs are widespread among bacteria and involved in diverse cellular functions. In many species, they have important roles in cell shape determination, including the establishment or adjustment of cell curvature in Helicobacter pylori (Sycuro et al, 2010), Campylobacter jejuni (Frirdich et al, 2023), Leptospira biplexa (Jackson et al, 2018) and Rhodospirillum rubrum (Pöhl et al, 2024), the modulation of cell size in Chlamydia trachomatis (Brockett et al, 2021), the formation of buds in Hyphomonas neptunium (Pöhl et al, 2024), the stabilization of rod shape in Myxococcus xanthus (Koch et al, 2011) and Proteus mirabilis (Hay et al, 1999) and the synthesis of stalk-like cellular extensions in C. crescentus (Kühn et al, 2010), Asticcacaulis biprosthecum (Caccamo et al, 2020) and Rhodomicrobium vannielii (Richter et al, 2023). Other functions include DNA organization in M. xanthus (Anand et al, 2020;Lin et al, 2017) as well as cell motility in Bacillus subtilis (El Andari et al, 2015).…”