Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Reassessment of the distinctive geometry of Staphylococcus aureus cell division

  • Bruno M. Saraiva,
  • Moritz Sorg,
  • Ana R. Pereira,
  • Mário J. Ferreira,
  • Léo C. Caulat,
  • Nathalie T. Reichmann,
  • Mariana G. Pinho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17940-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Staphylococcus aureus is thought to divide in three alternating orthogonal planes over three consecutive divisions. Here the authors dispel this idea, showing that one out of the multiple planes perpendicular to the septum can be used in daughter cells irrespective of its orientation in relation to the penultimate division plane.