The importance of proper protein localization for organism viability highlights the need for investigating this fundamental process in prokaryotic cell biology. Our lab has chosen the gram-negative bacterium Caulobacter crescentus as a model organism for studying prokaryotic protein localization. ... This small subset of localized proteins provides an excellent starting point for studying mechanisms of bacterial protein localization and compartmentalization to a specific subcellular destination. ... Therefore, it is possible to obtain a pure population of cells that have not yet synthesized ...

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