Bacteria surround their cell membrane with a net-like peptidoglycan layer, called sacculus,
to protect the cell from bursting and maintain its cell shape. Sacculus growth during …

Chlamydia spp. are important causes of human disease for which no effective vaccine
exists. These obligate intracellular pathogens replicate in a specialized membrane …

When it comes to the discovery and analysis of yet uncharted bacterial traits, pure cultures
are essential as only these allow detailed morphological and physiological characterization …

In recent years, substantial progress has been made in the understanding of the intracellular
lifestyle of Chlamydia trachomatis and how the bacteria establish themselves in the human …

Chlamydiae have been known for more than a century as major pathogens of humans. Yet
they are also found ubiquitously in the environment where they thrive within protists and in …

During bacterial cell division, filaments of tubulin-like FtsZ form the Z-ring, which is the
cytoplasmic scaffold for divisome assembly. In Escherichia coli, the actin homologue FtsA …

Peptidoglycan is the predominant stress‐bearing structure in the cell envelope of most
bacteria, and also a potent stimulator of the eukaryotic immune system. Obligate intracellular …

The cell wall of free-living bacteria consists of peptidoglycan (PG) and is critical for
maintenance of shape as dissolved solutes cause osmotic pressure and challenge cell …

Bacteria from the Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobia, and Chlamydiae (PVC) superphylum
are exceptions to the otherwise dominant mode of division by binary fission, which is based …

Most bacteria divide through a highly conserved process called binary fission, in which there
is symmetric growth of daughter cells and the synthesis of peptidoglycan at the mid-cell to …