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ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2017

The divisome at 25: the road ahead.

Tanneke den Blaauwen, Leendert W Hamoen, Petra Anne Levin

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Review in Current opinion in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

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112citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

112 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. FtsZ-mediated spatial-temporal control over septal cell wall synthesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  16. 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 · 2025
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  18. Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance: Innovative Drugs in Antibacterial Research.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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52 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tanneke den BlaauwenSwammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: t.denblaauwen@uva.nl.
Leendert W HamoenSwammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: l.w.hamoen@uva.nl.
Petra Anne LevinDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. Electronic address: plevin@wustl.edu.

Funding

TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CONTROL OF B SUBTILIS CYTOKINESISR01GM064671 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LEVIN, PETRA ANNE · 2002 to 2016
$3.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM064671
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The identification of the FtsZ ring by Bi and Lutkenhaus in 1991 was a defining moment for the field of bacterial cell division. Not only did the presence of the FtsZ ring provide fodder for the next 25 years of research, the application of a then cutting-edge approach-immunogold labeling of bacterial cells-inspired other investigators to apply similarly state-of-the-art technologies in their own work. These efforts have led to important advances in our understanding of the factors underlying assembly and maintenance of the division machinery. At the same time, significant questions about the mechanisms coordinating division with cell growth, DNA replication, and chromosome segregation remain. This review addresses the most prominent of these questions, setting the stage for the next 25 years.

Indexed as

Cell DivisionBacteriaBacterial ProteinsCell CycleCell Cycle ProteinsCytoskeletal ProteinsDNA ReplicationEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsResearchBacterial ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsCytoskeletal ProteinsEscherichia coli ProteinsFtsZ protein, Bacteria

Identifiers

PMID28254403
PMCPMC6436919

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