Bacterial Cell Division: Nonmodels Poised to Take the Spotlight
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Keywords
Min system, FtsZ, DivIVA, nucleoid occlusion, Noc
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-102215-095657
Abstract
The last three decades have witnessed an explosion of discoveries about the mechanistic details of binary fission in model bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, and Caulobacter crescentus. This was made possible not only by advances in microscopy that helped answer questions about cell biology but also by clever genetic manipulations that directly and easily tested specific hypotheses. More recently, research using understudied organisms, or nonmodel systems, has revealed several alternate mechanistic strategies that bacteria use to divide and propagate. In this review, we highlight new findings and compare these strategies to cell division mechanisms elucidated in model organisms.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Annual Review of Microbiology, v. 71, p. 393-411
Scholar Commons Citation
Eswara, Prahathees J. and Ramamurthi, Kumaran S., "Bacterial Cell Division: Nonmodels Poised to Take the Spotlight" (2017). Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications. 83.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/bcm_facpub/83
