Bacteria have evolved at least three independent mechanisms to define the site of cell division — the Min system, nucleoid occlusion, and the MipZ and ParB system. In all cases, an inhibitor of ...

When bacteria replicate their genetic material in preparation for cell division, the process starts at a specific point on the bacterial chromosome and continues along the chromosome in both ...

When the bacterial cells divide, copies of the human genes will be passed on to the new cells. Bacterial cells divide very rapidly so large quantities of human proteins can be produced.

The interaction between growth and the active migration of cells plays a crucial role in the spatial mixing of growing cell ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

adding that the behavior offers a versatile way to exert influence over everything from cell division to the intracellular positioning of organelles and even pathogens themselves. “That’s why various ...

The gene, which describes the protein FtsZ and marks the division site in bacteria and most organelles, is one of the few remaining bacterial cell division genes. Maurya, member of the Manchot ...

That may be because bacterial histones are smaller ... binding could straighten the strands and protect the DNA from over-compression during division into smaller cells. Indeed, straightened DNA ...