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SUBMITTER: Briley K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3781949 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Briley Kenneth K Prepiak Peter P Dias Miguel J MJ Hahn Jeanette J Dubnau David D
Molecular microbiology 20110607 1
Transformable (competent) cells of Bacillus subtilis are blocked in cell division because the traffic ATPase ComGA prevents the formation of FtsZ rings. Although ComGA-deficient cells elongate and form FtsZ rings, cell division remains blocked at a later stage and the cells become mildly filamented. Here we show that the highly conserved protein Maf is synthesized predominantly in competent cells under the direct control of the transcription factor ComK and is solely responsible for the later bl ...[more]