mBio
(Feb 2021)
Noc Corrals Migration of FtsZ Protofilaments during Cytokinesis in Bacillus subtilis
Yuanchen Yu,
Jinsheng Zhou,
Frederico J. Gueiros-Filho,
Daniel B. Kearns,
Stephen C. Jacobson
Affiliations
Yuanchen Yu
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Jinsheng Zhou
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Frederico J. Gueiros-Filho
Department of Biochemistry, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Daniel B. Kearns
ORCiD Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Stephen C. Jacobson
ORCiD Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02964-20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12,
no. 1
Abstract
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In bacteria, a condensed structure of FtsZ (Z-ring) recruits cell division machinery at the midcell, and Z-ring formation is discouraged over the chromosome by a poorly understood phenomenon called nucleoid occlusion. In B. subtilis
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