ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2025
To Sporulate or Not to Sporulate: Developmental Checkpoints Monitoring
Review in Annual review of microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- A lipid cue drives the subcellular localization of a self-inserting bacterial transmembrane protein.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- A metabolite morphogen coordinates multicellular development inScience advances · 2026Article
- A lipid cue drives the subcellular localization of a self-inserting bacterial transmembrane protein.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- 16S ribosomal RNA modification drives transcript-specific translation efficiency.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Shedding light on YfhS and YjlC: novel effectors of the NADH dehydrogenase activity of the electron transport chain inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Bioremediation and Recovery of Lead and Cadmium by Spores of Bacillus subtilis C1.MicrobiologyOpen · 2025Article
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Abstract
Developmental processes are carefully regulated programs that are present in multiple kingdoms of life and that generally result in cell differentiation and specialization. This regulation can be mediated in part by checkpoints that monitor the progression of development to ensure that earlier steps occur successfully before later steps are initiated. Bacterial endospore formation (i.e., sporulation) is a well-studied developmental program that transforms a progenitor cell into a dormant cell type in response to environmental stress and that serves as a model for the discussion of checkpoint mechanisms used to monitor development. This review focuses on the checkpoints monitoring bacterial sporulation, with an emphasis on the model gram-positive bacterium
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