title: Microbial asymmetric cell division: localization of cell fate determinants.
abstract: The genetic mechanisms that control asymmetric cell divisions--yielding progeny cells that differ from one another--have been conserved among prokaryotes, eukaryotic microbes, and higher organisms. All use the paradigm of regulatory protein localization as a way of translating genetic information into three-dimensional space.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Biology, Beckman Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5427, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shapiro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000502:physiology*; D016934:Caulobacter / Q000166:cytology*; D002453:Cell Cycle; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000166:cytology*; D013171:Spores, Bacterial