Bacterial cytokinesis: let the light shine in.
Recent application of fluorescence microscopy to the study of the bacterial cell cycle has revealed the existence of a cytoskeletal element - once thought to occur only in eukaryotic cells - that mediates cytokinesis, and possibly another involved in chromosome segregation.
Lutkenhaus
J
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Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA. jlutkenh@kumc.edu
D001419:Bacteria / Q000166:cytology*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D002455:Cell Division; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000648:ultrastructure; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; C071525:FtsZ protein, Bacteria; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins