ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021
FtsZ-Ring Regulation and Cell Division Are Mediated by Essential EzrA and Accessory Proteins ZapA and ZapJ in
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- [Advances in the Regulation of Protein Phosphorylation in Streptococcal Cell Wall Synthesis].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2026Review
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- Structure, Function, and Regulation of LytA: TheMicroorganisms · 2025Review
- 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
- GpsB Coordinates StkP Signaling as a PASTA Kinase Adaptor in Streptococcus pneumoniae Cell Division.Journal of molecular biology · 2024Article
- Elongasome core proteins and class A PBP1a display zonal, processive movement at the midcell ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Stay on track - revelations of bacterial cell wall synthesis enzymes and things that go by single-molecule imaging.Current opinion in microbiology · 2024Review
- Insights into the assembly and regulation of the bacterial divisome.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
- Anchors: A way for FtsZ filaments to stay membrane bound.Molecular microbiology · 2023Review
- Comparative genomics reveals intraspecific divergence ofMicrobial genomics · 2023Article
- The divisome but not the elongasome organizes capsule synthesis in Streptococcus pneumoniae.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Models versus pathogens: how conserved is the FtsZ in bacteria?Bioscience reports · 2023Review
- A tightly controlled gene induction system that contributes to the study of lethal gene function inJournal of oral microbiology · 2023Article
- Roles of RodZ and class A PBP1b in the assembly and regulation of the peripheral peptidoglycan elongasome in ovoid-shaped cells of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39.Molecular microbiology · 2022Article
- The Pneumococcal Divisome: Dynamic Control ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
The bacterial FtsZ-ring initiates division by recruiting a large repertoire of proteins (the divisome; Z-ring) needed for septation and separation of cells. Although FtsZ is essential and its role as the main orchestrator of cell division is conserved in most eubacteria, the regulators of Z-ring presence and positioning are not universal. This study characterizes factors that regulate divisome presence and placement in the ovoid-shaped pathogen,
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