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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

In situ architecture of a nucleoid-associated biomolecular co-condensate that regulates bacterial cell division.

Peng Xu, Dominik Schumacher, Chuan Liu, Andrea Harms, Marcel Dickmanns, Florian Beck, Jürgen M Plitzko, Wolfgang Baumeister, Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Peng Xu *Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried 82152, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5514-005X
Dominik Schumacher *Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 35043, Germany.
Chuan LiuDepartment of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried 82152, Germany.
Andrea HarmsDepartment of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 35043, Germany.
Marcel DickmannsDepartment of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried 82152, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4001-707X
Florian BeckDepartment of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried 82152, Germany.
Jürgen M PlitzkoResearch Group CryoEM Technology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried 82152, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6402-8315
Wolfgang BaumeisterDepartment of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried 82152, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8154-8809
Lotte Søgaard-AndersenDepartment of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 35043, Germany.

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Abstract

In most bacteria, cell division depends on the tubulin-homolog FtsZ that polymerizes in a GTP-dependent manner to form the cytokinetic Z-ring at the future division site. Subsequently, the Z-ring recruits, directly or indirectly, all other proteins of the divisome complex that executes cytokinesis. A critical step in this process is the precise positioning of the Z-ring at the future division site. While the divisome proteins are generally conserved, the regulatory systems that position the Z-ring are more diverse. However, these systems have in common that they modulate FtsZ polymerization. In

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Bacterial ProteinsCell DivisionCryoelectron MicroscopyCytoskeletal ProteinsMyxococcus xanthusBacterial ProteinsCytoskeletal ProteinsFtsZ protein, Bacteriabacterial cell divisionbiomolecular condensatecorrelative cryo-electron tomographycryo-electron microscopyliquid-liquid phase separation

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PMCPMC11725790

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