ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2016
Splitsville: structural and functional insights into the dynamic bacterial Z ring.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 179 papers.
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- Local peptidoglycan composition defines division site selection in Streptococcus pneumoniae.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Structure insight into FtsZ function maintaining under acid stress of Streptococcus mutans.International journal of oral science · 2026Article
- Extensile Active Hydrogels Driven by Living FtsZ Polymers.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- The WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria: challenges and opportunities for next-generation antimicrobial development.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Uropathogenic Escherichia coli proliferate as a coccoid morphotype inside human host cells.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- FtsZ as a novel target for antibiotics development: Promises and challenges.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2025Review
- FtsZ-mediated spatial-temporal control over septal cell wall synthesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Disruption of salt bridge interactions in the inter-domain cleft of the tubulin-like protein FtsZ of Escherichia coli makes cells sensitive to the cell division inhibitor PC190723.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
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- Combining live fluorescence imaging with in situ cryoelectron tomography sheds light on the septation process inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Bacterial extracellular vesicles target different bacterial species, impairing cell division and diminishing their pathogenicity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Antibacterial Effect and Mechanism of Chelerythrine onMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- MdfA is a novel ClpC adaptor protein that functions in the developingGenes & development · 2025Article
- Targeting Bacterial Cell Division with Benzodioxane-Benzamide FtsZ Inhibitors as a Novel Strategy to Fight Gram-Positive Ovococcal Pathogens.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- GpsB interacts with FtsZ in multiple species and may serve as an accessory Z-ring anchor.Molecular biology of the cell · 2025Article
- Bacteriophage P1 protein Icd inhibits bacterial division by targeting FtsZ.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Spatio-temporal organization of theEcoSal Plus · 2024Review
- Determining the rate-limiting processes for cell division in Escherichia coli.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2024Review
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Abstract
Bacteria must divide to increase in number and colonize their niche. Binary fission is the most widespread means of bacterial cell division, but even this relatively simple mechanism has many variations on a theme. In most bacteria, the tubulin homologue FtsZ assembles into a ring structure, termed the Z ring, at the site of cytokinesis and recruits additional proteins to form a large protein machine - the divisome - that spans the membrane. In this Review, we discuss current insights into the regulation of the assembly of the Z ring and how the divisome drives membrane invagination and septal cell wall growth while flexibly responding to various cellular inputs.
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