title: Catching some Zs: a new protein for spatial regulation of bacterial cytokinesis.
abstract: Prior to its duplication, the bacterial nucleoid exerts local negative control over assembly of the cytokinetic Z ring to prevent potential cutting of the chromosome. In this issue of Cell, Wu and Errington show that a specific nucleoid-associated protein mediates this nucleoid occlusion effect, providing the first mechanistic insight into this key spatial regulatory system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Margolin
mesh_terms: D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000166:cytology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002455:Cell Division; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D009154:Mutation
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins