MOLECULAR GENETICS OF SPORULATION IN BACILLUS SUBTILIS

P Stragier, R Losick - Annual review of genetics, 1996‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The process of sporulation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis proceeds through a
well-defined series of morphological stages that involve the conversion of a growing cell into …

Cytokinesis in bacteria

J Errington, RA Daniel, DJ Scheffers - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2003‏ - journals.asm.org
Work on two diverse rod-shaped bacteria, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, has defined
a set of about 10 conserved proteins that are important for cell division in a wide range of …

The sigma factors of Bacillus subtilis

WG Haldenwang - Microbiological reviews, 1995‏ - journals.asm.org
The specificity of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase for target promotes is largely due to the
replaceable sigma subunit that it carries. Multiple sigma proteins, each conferring a unique …

Compartmentalization of Gene Expression during Bacillus subtilis Spore Formation

DW Hilbert, PJ Piggot - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 2004‏ - journals.asm.org
Gene expression in members of the family Bacillaceae becomes compartmentalized after
the distinctive, asymmetrically located sporulation division. It involves complete …

Cell-division inhibitors: new insights for future antibiotics

RL Lock, EJ Harry - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2008‏ - nature.com
The growing problem of antibiotic resistance has been exacerbated by the use of new drugs
that are merely variants of older overused antibiotics. While it is naive to expect to restrain …

Genes governing swarming in Bacillus subtilis and evidence for a phase variation mechanism controlling surface motility

DB Kearns, F Chu, R Rudner… - Molecular microbiology, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
Undomesticated strains of Bacillus subtilis, but not laboratory strains, exhibit robust
swarming motility on solid surfaces. The failure of laboratory strains to swarm is caused by a …

3D-SIM super resolution microscopy reveals a bead-like arrangement for FtsZ and the division machinery: implications for triggering cytokinesis

MP Strauss, ATF Liew, L Turnbull, CB Whitchurch… - 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
FtsZ is a tubulin-like GTPase that is the major cytoskeletal protein in bacterial cell division. It
polymerizes into a ring, called the Z ring, at the division site and acts as a scaffold to recruit …

A conserved subcomplex within the bacterial cytokinetic ring activates cell wall synthesis by the FtsW-FtsI synthase

LS Marmont, TG Bernhardt - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
Cell division in bacteria is mediated by a multiprotein assembly called the divisome. A major
function of this machinery is the synthesis of the peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall that caps the …

Control of the cell elongation–division cycle by shuttling of PBP1 protein in Bacillus subtilis

D Claessen, R Emmins, LW Hamoen… - Molecular …, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
The characteristic shape of bacterial cells is mainly determined by the cell wall, the synthesis
of which is orchestrated by penicillin‐binding proteins (PBPs). Rod‐shaped bacteria have …

Themes and variations in prokaryotic cell division

W Margolin - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2000‏ - academic.oup.com
Perhaps the biggest single task facing a bacterial cell is to divide into daughter cells that
contain the normal complement of chromosomes. Recent technical and conceptual …