Over the past decade the number and variety of protein post-translational modifications that
have been detected and characterized in bacteria have rapidly increased. Most post …

The ability to split one cell into two is fundamental to all life, and many bacteria can
accomplish this feat several times per hour with high accuracy. Most bacteria call on an …

Bacteria must divide to increase in number and colonize their niche. Binary fission is the
most widespread means of bacterial cell division, but even this relatively simple mechanism …

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

Bacteria exhibit a myriad of different morphologies, through the synthesis and modification of
their essential peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall. Our discovery of af luorescent da mino a cid …

The bacterial cell wall is a complex, mesh-like structure that in most bacteria is essential for
maintenance of cell shape and structural integrity. Historically, the cell wall has been of …

During growth and propagation, a bacterial cell enlarges and subsequently divides its
peptidoglycan (PG) sacculus, a continuous mesh‐like layer that encases the cell membrane …

Highlights•The discovery of the FtsZ ring by Bi and Lutkenhaus in 1991 was a defining
moment in the field of bacterial cell division.•The past 25 years of research have significantly …

The FtsZ protein is a highly conserved bacterial tubulin homolog. In vivo, the functional form
of FtsZ is the polymeric, ring-like structure (Z-ring) assembled at the future division site …

Bacterial cell division is initiated by the midcell assembly of polymers of the tubulin-like
GTPase FtsZ. The FtsZ ring (Z-ring) is a discontinuous structure made of dynamic patches of …