Recruitment of the TolA protein to cell constriction sites in Escherichia coli via three separate mechanisms, and a critical role for FtsWI activity in recruitment of both …

CA Hale, L Persons, PAJ de Boer - Journal of bacteriology, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… play a role in maintaining the integrity of the outer membrane, are recruited to the machinery.
… Thus, neither any of the other four Tol-Pal proteins nor CpoB is required for the recruitment …

Loss of bacterial cell pole stabilization in Caulobacter crescentus sensitizes to outer membrane stress and peptidoglycan-directed antibiotics

SU Vallet, LH Hansen, FC Bistrup, SA Laursen… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… its cell cycle in order to propagate the correct positioning of the … Tol-Pal is required for outer
membrane fission at cell division … it is required for general cell envelope integrity in addition to …

Tol-Pal system and Rgs proteins interact to promote unipolar growth and cell division in Sinorhizobium meliloti

E Krol, HCL Yau, M Lechner, S Schäper, G Bange… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… We did not find the outer membrane-anchored and … Thus, RgsD could play a role in the
positioning of PG synthesis … In the alphaproteobacterium Caulobacter crescentus, possessing …

Genomic Approaches Toward Understanding Gram-Negative Bacterial Outer Membrane Homeostasis

TW Boon - 2020 - search.proquest.com
… Our results indicated that TolPal play crucial roles in both outer membrane biogenesis and
… , yet somewhat elusory, functions in maintaining the integrity of outer membrane and cell

FtsA regulates Z-ring morphology and cell wall metabolism in an FtsZ C-terminal linker-dependent manner in Caulobacter crescentus

JM Barrows, K Sundararajan, A Bhargava… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… ), outer membrane remodeling proteins (Tol-Pal complex), … constriction activation and division
site positioning, respectively. As … effects on cell morphology and cell wall integrity, since the …

The role of CenKR in the coordination of Rhodobacter sphaeroides cell elongation and division

BD Lakey, F Alberge, D Parrell, ER Wright… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
… genes encoding subunit of the Tol-Pal complex. In this work, … In Caulobacter crescentus,
it was shown that overexpression of … prior structural studies of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) …

The two-component system ChvGI maintains cell envelope homeostasis in Caulobacter crescentus

A Quintero-Yanes, A Mayard, R Hallez - PLoS Genetics, 2022 - journals.plos.org
cell envelope architecture by controlling outer membrane, … OMPs, therefore weakening
the outer membrane integrity [42]. … important to maintain the cell-envelope scaffold (ie Tol/Pal

Phosphatase to kinase switch of a critical enzyme contributes to timing of cell differentiation

TN Chong, M Panjalingam, S Saurabh, L Shapiro - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
… As a control, we probed the outer membrane protein, PAL, which does not change in … PleC
is essential for Caulobacter cell cycle progression, as it functions to phosphorylate PleD and …

Timing the Process of Cell Differentiation During the Caulobacter Cell Cycle

TN Chong - 2023 - search.proquest.com
… Distinct biomolecular condensates positioned at the stalked … critical unanswered questions
that relate to Caulobacter cell … As a control, we probed the outer membrane protein, PAL, …

Cell Division

R Gupta, N Gupta, R Gupta, N Gupta… - Fundamentals of Bacterial …, 2021 - Springer
… In Caulobacter cresentus which exhibits dimorphic cell cycle, … of Tol-Pal system involved in
outer membrane constriction of … chromosomes, precise positioning of division machinery and …