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How bacterial cell division might cheat turgor pressure - a unified mechanism of septal division in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
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- Peptidoglycan polymerase function and regulation.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025Review
- 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 osmoprotectants-a way to survive in saline conditions and potential crop allies.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2024Review
- Mechanistic insights into the regulation of cell wall hydrolysis by FtsEX and EnvC at the bacterial division site.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Osmotic stress as a factor for regulatingAIMS microbiology · 2023Article
- Cell wall synthesis and remodelling dynamics determine division site architecture and cell shape in Escherichia coli.Nature microbiology · 2022Article
- Effects of Nanopillar Size and Spacing on Mechanical Perturbation and Bactericidal Killing Efficiency.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Mechanics of Bacterial Interaction and Death on Nanopatterned Surfaces.Biophysical journal · 2021Article
- Hyperosmotic Shock Transiently Accelerates Constriction Rate inFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- How Teichoic Acids Could Support a Periplasm in Gram-Positive Bacteria, and Let Cell Division Cheat Turgor Pressure.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Understanding Beta-Lactam-Induced Lysis at the Single-Cell Level.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Identification of Penicillin Binding Protein 4 (PBP4) as a critical factor for Staphylococcus aureus bone invasion during osteomyelitis in mice.PLoS pathogens · 2020Article
- Insights into the Structure, Function, and Dynamics of the Bacterial Cytokinetic FtsZ-Ring.Annual review of biophysics · 2020Review
- Simulations suggest a constrictive force is required for Gram-negative bacterial cell division.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Drosophila melanogaster establishes a species-specific mutualistic interaction with stable gut-colonizing bacteria.PLoS biology · 2018Article
- The cell division protein MinD fromThe Journal of biological chemistry · 2018Article
- Turgor Pressure and Possible Constriction Mechanisms in Bacterial Division.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
An important question for bacterial cell division is how the invaginating septum can overcome the turgor force generated by the high osmolarity of the cytoplasm. I suggest that it may not need to. Several studies in Gram-negative bacteria have shown that the periplasm is isoosmolar with the cytoplasm. Indirect evidence suggests that this is also true for Gram-positive bacteria. In this case the invagination of the septum takes place within the uniformly high osmotic pressure environment, and does not have to fight turgor pressure. A related question is how the V-shaped constriction of Gram-negative bacteria relates to the plate-like septum of Gram-positive bacteria. I collected evidence that Gram-negative bacteria have a latent capability of forming plate-like septa, and present a model in which septal division is the basic mechanism in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
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