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A cytoskeletal element that forms filaments throughout the cells of the rod-shaped proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus..
Many of the genomes containing bactofilin genes have multiple paralogous copies, which can be organized in an operon-like structure, or can be present at distinct genomic sites.
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Bactofilin means A cytoskeletal element that forms filaments throughout the cells of the rod-shaped proteobacterium Myxococcus xanthus..
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Many of the genomes containing bactofilin genes have multiple paralogous copies, which can be organized in an operon-like structure, or can be present at distinct genomic sites.
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