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SUBMITTER: Coltharp C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5319824 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology 20161107 1
We propose that the essential function of the most highly conserved protein in bacterial cytokinesis, FtsZ, is not to generate a mechanical force to drive cell division. Rather, we suggest that FtsZ acts as a signal-processing hub to coordinate cell wall synthesis at the division septum with a diverse array of cellular processes, ensuring that the cell divides smoothly at the correct time and place, and with the correct septum morphology. Here, we explore how the polymerization properties of Fts ...[more]