pH-dependent activation of cytokinesis modulates Escherichia coli cell size

Superfolder mTurquoise2ox optimized for the bacterial periplasm allows high efficiency in vivo FRET of cell division antibiotic targets

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Regulation of the Peptidoglycan Polymerase Activity of PBP1b by Antagonist Actions of the Core Divisome Proteins FtsBLQ and FtsN

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An Acinetobacter baumannii, Zinc-Regulated Peptidase Maintains Cell Wall Integrity during Immune-Mediated Nutrient Sequestration

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Endopeptidase Regulation as a Novel Function of the Zur-Dependent Zinc Starvation Response

(2019) Shannon G. Murphy et al.   mBio

Peptidoglycan Remodeling Enables Escherichia coli To Survive Severe Outer Membrane Assembly Defect

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Movement dynamics of divisome proteins and PBP2x:FtsW in cells of Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2019) Amilcar J. Perez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanistic Origin of Cell-Size Control and Homeostasis in Bacteria

(2019) Fangwei Si et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Comprehensive analysis of central carbon metabolism illuminates connections between nutrient availability, growth rate, and cell morphology in Escherichia coli

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Copper inhibits peptidoglycan LD-transpeptidases suppressing β-lactam resistance due to bypass of penicillin-binding proteins

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GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis

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SuperSegger: robust image segmentation, analysis and lineage tracking of bacterial cells

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Splitsville: structural and functional insights into the dynamic bacterial Z ring

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Defining the rate-limiting processes of bacterial cytokinesis

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FtsEX acts on FtsA to regulate divisome assembly and activity

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The Redundancy of Peptidoglycan Carboxypeptidases Ensures Robust Cell Shape Maintenance in Escherichia coli

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Bacterial cell wall biogenesis is mediated by SEDS and PBP polymerase families functioning semi-autonomously

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The bypass of ZipA by overexpression of FtsN requires a previously unknown conserved FtsN motif essential for FtsA-FtsN interaction supporting a model in which FtsA monomers recruit late cell division proteins to the Z ring

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Roles for both FtsA and the FtsBLQ subcomplex in FtsN-stimulated cell constriction inEscherichia coli

(2015) Bing Liu et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial SPOR domains are recruited to septal peptidoglycan by binding to glycan strands that lack stem peptides

(2015) Atsushi Yahashiri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Constant Size Extension Drives Bacterial Cell Size Homeostasis

(2014) Manuel Campos et al.   CELL

A DNA Damage-Induced, SOS-Independent Checkpoint Regulates Cell Division in Caulobacter crescentus

(2014) Joshua W. Modell et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Moonlighting Enzyme Links Escherichia coli Cell Size with Central Metabolism

(2013) Norbert S. Hill et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Early Divisome Protein FtsA Interacts Directly through Its 1c Subdomain with the Cytoplasmic Domain of the Late Divisome Protein FtsN

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Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

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