ReviewJournal of cell science2020
Bacterial cell division at a glance.
Review in Journal of cell science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.
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64 citing papers in PubMed.
- A coma pattern-based autofocusing method resolves bacterial cold shock response at single-cell level.eLife · 2026Article
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- A conserved oscillatory system that positions the divisome in Archaea.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A novel planctomycetotal isolate from subsurface percolates belongs to the novel species Anatilimnocola aquadivae sp. nov. in the family Pirellulaceae.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Friction-driven scission: How nonlocal mechanisms contribute to membrane fission across domains of life.Science advances · 2026Review
- A conserved hub protein required for peptidoglycan remodeling and cell division inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- BAV-LLPS: a database of bacterial, archaea, and virus liquid-liquid phase separation proteins.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Adaptive Tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes to Chemical Oxidants: Comparative Analysis of Transcriptomic Studies.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2025Review
- A novel peptidoglycan deacetylase modulates daughter cell separation in E. coli.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
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- Ribosome deficiency inducesmBio · 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
- 'Intelligent' proteins.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025Review
- How do spherical bacteria regulate cell division?Biochemical Society transactions · 2025Review
- Control of morphogenesis during theScience advances · 2025Article
- The geneAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025Article
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- GpsB interacts with FtsZ in multiple species and may serve as an accessory Z-ring anchor.Molecular biology of the cell · 2025Article
- Modulation of the lytic apparatus by the FtsEX complex within the bacterial division machinery.FEBS letters · 2024Review
- PcdA promotes orthogonal division plane selection in Staphylococcus aureus.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Bacterial cell division is initiated by the midcell assembly of polymers of the tubulin-like GTPase FtsZ. The FtsZ ring (Z-ring) is a discontinuous structure made of dynamic patches of FtsZ that undergo treadmilling motion. Roughly a dozen additional essential proteins are recruited to the division site by the dynamic Z-ring scaffold and subsequently activate cell wall synthesis to drive cell envelope constriction during division. In this Cell Science at a Glance article and the accompanying poster, we summarize our understanding of the assembly and activation of the bacterial cell division machinery. We introduce polymerization properties of FtsZ and discuss our current knowledge of divisome assembly and activation. We further highlight the intimate relationship between the structure and dynamics of FtsZ and the movement and activity of cell wall synthases at the division site, before concluding with a perspective on the most important open questions on bacterial cell division.
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