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© o) 2.25 Points In 1999, Carlier’s lab reconstituted motility of the bacterium Listeria in vitro. They put the bacteria into aqueous solution with plenty of cations and ATP and started to add purified proteins in various combinations. They found that the following minimal set of proteins is necessary and sufficient to generate an actin comet tail growing from the bacterial surface and to kick-start Listeria’s locomotion: i) actin, ii) Arp2/3 complex, iii) cofilin, iv) capping protein. Q5.1 0.75 Points Why is Arp2/3 complex necessary to generate Listeria’s movement in the experiment? Q5.2 0.75 Points If, instead of Listeria, pure clean plastic beads, not coated with anything, were placed into the medium containing cations, ATP, actin, Arp2/3 complex, cofilin and capping protein, would the beads assemble actin tails and move? Justify your answer. Q5.3 0.75 Points Why is myosin not required for intracellular Listeria’s motility?
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