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SUBMITTER: Ojkic N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5158138 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ojkic Nikola N López-Garrido Javier J Pogliano Kit K Endres Robert G RG
eLife 20161117
When starved, the Gram-positive bacterium <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> forms durable spores for survival. Sporulation initiates with an asymmetric cell division, creating a large mother cell and a small forespore. Subsequently, the mother cell membrane engulfs the forespore in a phagocytosis-like process. However, the force generation mechanism for forward membrane movement remains unknown. Here, we show that membrane migration is driven by cell wall remodeling at the leading edge of the engulfing m ...[more]