How bacteria grow and divide while retaining a defined shape is a fundamental question in microbiology, but technological advances are now driving a new understanding of how the shape-maintaining bacterial peptidoglycan sacculus grows.
The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (Escrt) pathway was initially defined in yeast genetic screens that identified the factors necessary to sort membrane proteins into intraluminal endosomal vesicles.
Epigenetic modulations such as DNA methylation and histone modifications are becoming increasingly important for their ability to upregulate, down-regulate or silence genes without altering the DNA sequence.
By doing so, my team discovered a previously overlooked carbon fixation process where bacteria literally ‘live on thin air’. We coined this microbial-based process ‘atmospheric chemosynthesis’ and published these findings in the prestigious…
Although the Z ring drives PG synthesis during cell division, there are several recent reports suggesting that FtsZ outside of the septation process may also have a role in elongation and maintenance of the shape of the cell wall.
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