ReviewTrends in microbiology2012
The ParA/MinD family puts things in their place.
Review in Trends in microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers.
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124 citing papers in PubMed, 218 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A Gifsy prophage-encoded protein confers broad phage resistance inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- A self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit optimizesbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- SMC modulates ParB engagement in segregation complexes in streptomyces.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Brownian ratchet mechanisms for carboxysome positioning in bacteria.Current opinion in microbiology · 2025Review
- Milestones in the development ofJournal of bacteriology · 2025Review
- Synthetic Forms Most Beautiful: Engineering Insights into Self-Organization.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Review
- Mutational analysis of the F plasmid partitioning protein ParA reveals residues required for oligomerization and plasmid maintenance.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Tuning the interaction of a ParA-type ATPase with its partner separates bacterial organelle positioning from partitioning.Research square · 2025Article
- Tuning the interaction of a ParA-type ATPase with its partner separates bacterial organelle positioning from partitioning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Bacteria must segregate their DNA and position a septum to grow and divide. In many bacteria, MinD is involved in spatial regulation of the cytokinetic Z ring, and ParAs are involved in chromosome and plasmid segregation. The use of the MinD/ParA family to provide positional information for spatial organization continues to expand with the recognition that orphan ParAs are required for segregating cytoplasmic protein clusters and the polar localization of chemotaxis proteins, conjugative transfer machinery, type IV pili, and cellulose synthesis. Also, some bacteria lacking MinD use orphan ParAs to regulate cell division. Positioning of MinD/ParA proteins is either due to self-organization on a surface or reliance on a landmark protein that functions as a molecular beacon.
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