Cytokinesis in Bacteria

By J. Errington, R. Daniel, D. Scheffers. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2003

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Bacterial cell division: assembly, maintenance and disassembly of the Z ring (2009, background): “jpg" NDATA ITEM> ]> Cytokinesis in bacteria is achieved by a macromolecular machine called the divisom”
Regulation of endospore formation in Bacillus subtilis (2003, background): “The Min system comprises three proteins, MinC, MinD and either MinE or DivIVA — which act to block division near the cell poles (see Ref”
Streptomyces morphogenetics: dissecting differentiation in a filamentous bacterium (2009, background): “subtilis are recruited to the division site when a stable Z ring is in place and seem to constitute a link between the Z ring and the peptidoglycan biosynthetic machiner”
Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis: New Insights from Localization Studies (2005, background): “The Z ring consists of polymers of FtsZ, the bacterial tubulin homologue, and is required for the recruitment of all other bacterial cell division proteins to the division site (52).”
The Selective Value of Bacterial Shape (2006, background): “Towards this end, a regular shape would seem to be the best way to ensure that an equal amount of “stuff” is allocated to each daughter, because a symmetrical cell can be halved accurately by mechanisms that measure length or volume (69, 124).”