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Self-organization of mortal filaments and its role in bacterial division ring formation

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Nature Physics, Published online: 12 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02597-8

Treadmilling of cytoskeletal filaments is crucial for their functional self-organization. Now the mechanism underpinning this collective organization is shown to be the dissolution of misaligned filaments.