Bacterial cell division is orchestrated by the divisome, a protein complex centered on the
tubulin homolog FtsZ. FtsZ polymerizes into a dynamic ring that defines the division site …

Decades of research, much of it in Escherichia coli, have yielded a wealth of insight into
bacterial cell division. Here, we provide an overview of the E. coli division machinery with an …

Cell division is spatiotemporally precisely regulated, but the underlying mechanisms are
incompletely understood. In the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, the …

Despite the central role of division in bacterial physiology, how division proteins work
together as a nanoscale machine to divide the cell remains poorly understood. Cell division …

A major challenge towards the realization of an autonomous synthetic cell resides in the
encoding of a division machinery in a genetic programme. In the bacterial cell cycle, the …

Filaments in the cell commonly treadmill. Driven by energy consumption, they grow on one
end while shrinking on the other, causing filaments to appear motile even though individual …

Although many components of the cell division machinery in bacteria have been identified,,
the mechanisms by which they work together to divide the cell remain poorly understood …

The emergence of large-scale order in self-organized systems relies on local interactions
between individual components. During bacterial cell division, FtsZ—a prokaryotic …

Cytokinesis is a fundamental process for bacterial survival and proliferation, involving the
formation of a ring by filaments of the GTPase FtsZ, spatio-temporally regulated through the …

The bacterial FtsZ-ring initiates division by recruiting a large repertoire of proteins (the
divisome; Z-ring) needed for septation and separation of cells. Although FtsZ is essential …