ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2015
The Min system and other nucleoid-independent regulators of Z ring positioning.
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- Synthetic cells by the numbers.iScience · 2025Review
- E. coli filament buckling modulates Min patterning and cell division.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Uropathogenic Escherichia coli proliferate as a coccoid morphotype inside human host cells.PLoS biology · 2025Article
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- FlhE functions as a chaperone to prevent formation of periplasmic flagella in Gram-negative bacteria.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Elongasome core proteins and class A PBP1a display zonal, processive movement at the midcell ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Diversity, Origin and Evolution of the ESCRT Systems.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Insights into the assembly and regulation of the bacterial divisome.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
- Bacterial cell-size changes resulting from altering the relative expression of Min proteins.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Imaging Flow Cytometry for High-Throughput Phenotyping of Synthetic Cells.ACS synthetic biology · 2023Article
- Min oscillations in bacteria as real-time reporter of environmental challenges at the single-cell level.Open biology · 2023Review
- Clonal Amplification-Enhanced Gene Expression in Synthetic Vesicles.ACS synthetic biology · 2023Article
- Recent structural advances in bacterial chemotaxis signalling.Current opinion in structural biology · 2023Review
- Bacterial division ring stabilizing ZapA versus destabilizing SlmA modulate FtsZ switching between biomolecular condensates and polymers.Open biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Rod-shaped bacteria such as E. coli have mechanisms to position their cell division plane at the precise center of the cell, to ensure that the daughter cells are equal in size. The two main mechanisms are the Min system and nucleoid occlusion (NO), both of which work by inhibiting assembly of FtsZ, the tubulin-like scaffold that forms the cytokinetic Z ring. Whereas NO prevents Z rings from constricting over unsegregated nucleoids, the Min system is nucleoid-independent and even functions in cells lacking nucleoids and thus NO. The Min proteins of E. coli and B. subtilis form bipolar gradients that inhibit Z ring formation most at the cell poles and least at the nascent division plane. This article will outline the molecular mechanisms behind Min function in E. coli and B. subtilis, and discuss distinct Z ring positioning systems in other bacterial species.
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