Single-molecule super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and single-particle tracking are
two imaging modalities that illuminate the properties of cells and materials on spatial scales …

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 …

The bacterial tubulin FtsZ is the central component of the cell division machinery,
coordinating an ensemble of proteins involved in septal cell wall synthesis to ensure …

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 in Escherichia coli is mediated by a large protein complex called the divisome.
Most of the divisome proteins have been identified, but how they assemble onto the Z ring …

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 …

Bacterial cell division is mediated by the divisome which is organized by the Z ring, a
cytoskeletal element formed by the polymerization of the tubulin homologue FtsZ. Despite …

FtsN plays an essential role in promoting the inward synthesis of septal peptidoglycan (sPG)
by the FtsWI complex during bacterial cell division. How it achieves this role is unclear. Here …

Bacterial cytokinesis is accomplished by the essential 'divisome'machinery. The most widely
conserved divisome component, FtsZ, is a tubulin homolog that polymerizes into the 'FtsZ …

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 …