Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Cross-membranes orchestrate compartmentalization and morphogenesis in Streptomyces

  • Katherine Celler,
  • Roman I. Koning,
  • Joost Willemse,
  • Abraham J. Koster,
  • Gilles P. van Wezel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11836
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Streptomycetes are multicellular bacteria that grow as multinucleoid filaments with infrequent cross-walls. Here, the authors describe a membrane system that forms protein-impermeable barriers and compartmentalizes the multinucleoid filaments independently from the FtsZ-guided cell division machinery.