Escherichia coli cell division.
Recent progress in the molecular analysis of bacterial septation and chromosome partitioning suggests that these processes may involve cytoskeletal elements previously thought to be present only in eukaryotic cells. The continued biochemical and genetic analysis of key proteins, such as the tubulin-like FtsZ, should lead to further unravelling of the regulation and mechanism of bacterial cell division.
Lutkenhaus
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Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66103.
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D002455:Cell Division; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; C071525:FtsZ protein, Bacteria