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Localization, Assembly, and Activation of the Escherichia coli Cell Division Machinery.
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- Bacterial growth rate in populations and single cells.Nature microbiology · 2026Review
- Defining the order of assembly of theJournal of bacteriology · 2026Article
- Devising a divisome for synthetic cells.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2026Review
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- Defining the order of assembly of thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Dysregulation of a nucleotidyltransferase induces division and surface glycan defects inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Biomolecules involved in the metabolism of Escherichia coli affected by photodynamics: A calorimetry study.PloS one · 2026Article
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- Exploring lipid diversity and minimalism to define membrane requirements for synthetic cells.FEBS letters · 2025Review
- Compositional analysis of bacterial peptidoglycan: insights from peptidoglycomics into structure and function.Journal of bacteriology · 2025Review
- Repression of mab_1999 impairs growth and alters cellular morphology of Mycobacterium abscessus.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Crosslinking by ZapD drives the assembly of short FtsZ filaments into toroidal structures in solution.eLife · 2025Article
- Uropathogenic Escherichia coli proliferate as a coccoid morphotype inside human host cells.PLoS biology · 2025Article
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- Identification of SanA as a novel regulator of peptidoglycan biogenesis in Escherichia coli.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- An in silico approach for identification of lead compound as FtsZ inhibitor.Molecular diversity · 2024Article
- Septal wall synthesis is sufficient to change ameba-like cells into uniform oval-shaped cells in Escherichia coli L-forms.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- In Vivo Cross-Linking Sheds Light on the Salmonella Divisome in Which PBP3 and PBP3Molecular microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Decades of research, much of it in Escherichia coli, have yielded a wealth of insight into bacterial cell division. Here, we provide an overview of the E. coli division machinery with an emphasis on recent findings. We begin with a short historical perspective into the discovery of FtsZ, the tubulin homolog that is essential for division in bacteria and archaea. We then discuss assembly of the divisome, an FtsZ-dependent multiprotein platform, at the midcell septal site. Not simply a scaffold, the dynamic properties of polymeric FtsZ ensure the efficient and uniform synthesis of septal peptidoglycan. Next, we describe the remodeling of the cell wall, invagination of the cell envelope, and disassembly of the division apparatus culminating in scission of the mother cell into two daughter cells. We conclude this review by highlighting some of the open questions in the cell division field, emphasizing that much remains to be discovered, even in an organism as extensively studied as E. coli.
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