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SUBMITTER: Casiraghi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7167804 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Casiraghi Andrea A Suigo Lorenzo L Valoti Ermanno E Straniero Valentina V
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) 20200207 2
Binary fission is the most common mode of bacterial cell division and is mediated by a multiprotein complex denominated the divisome. The constriction of the Z-ring splits the mother bacterial cell into two daughter cells of the same size<i>.</i> The Z-ring is formed by the polymerization of FtsZ, a bacterial protein homologue of eukaryotic tubulin, and it represents the first step of bacterial cytokinesis. The high grade of conservation of FtsZ in most prokaryotic organisms and its relevance in ...[more]