We have developed several new fluorescent staining procedures that enabled us to study
the synthesis of cell wall material in the spherical Gram‐positive bacterium Staphylococcus …

Rod-shaped mycobacteria expand from their poles, yet d-amino acid probes label cell wall
peptidoglycan in this genus at both the poles and sidewall. We sought to clarify the …

In the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical, and food industries high-pressure
homogenization is used for the preparation or stabilization of emulsions and suspensions, or …

To understand further the role of the nucleoid and the min system in selection of the cell
division site, we examined FtsZ localization in Escherichia coli cells lacking MinCDE and in …

Growth of the bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan sacculus requires the co‐ordinated activities
of peptidoglycan synthases, hydrolases and cell morphogenesis proteins, but the details of …

Recent advances have shown conclusively that bacterial cells possess distant but true
homologues of actin (MreB, ParM, and the recently uncovered MamK protein). Despite weak …

Cellular integrity and morphology of most bacteria is maintained by cell wall peptidoglycan,
the target of antibiotics essential in modern healthcare. It consists of glycan strands, cross …

The shape of bacteria is determined by their cell wall and can be very diverse. Even among
genera with the suffix 'cocci', which are the focus of this review, different shapes exist. While …

The murein (peptidoglycan) sacculus is an essential polymer embedded in the bacterial
envelope. The Escherichia coli class B penicillin‐binding protein (PBP) 3 is a murein …

Bacterial cytokinesis is driven by the septal ring apparatus, the assembly of which in
Escherichia coli is directed to mid‐cell by the Min system. Despite suffering aberrant …