The first recognizable event in bacterial cell division is the assembly of FtsZ into a ring-like structure at mid-cell. This Z ring serves as a scaffold for the assembly of the division machinery ...

Not all individuals in a population of bacteria are identical. Some may be on the verge of cell division, others are differentiating, others are in the process of adapting to changing environmental ...

Figure 1: Temporal and spatial regulation of cell division by nucleoid occlusion and the Min system in rod-shaped bacteria. Interestingly, Noc and SlmA have no sequence or structural similarity ...

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a ...

The Min protein system prevents abnormal cell division in bacteria by forming oscillating patterns between the ends of a cell ("poles"). Despite decades of theoretical work, predicting the protein ...

When a single bacterial cell divides into two during ... because previous calculations have ignored the drivers of cell division at the molecular scale. Their findings were published in the ...

After showing in 2012 that some rod-shaped bacteria are capable of dividing lengthwise -- a fascinating alternative to what we knew about cell division so far -- her team has been taken again by ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

By reintroducing various genes into these synthetic bacterial cells and then monitoring ... this was enough to restore normal, uniform cell division and growth. Strychalski and her colleagues ...

In May 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its Bacterial Priority Pathogens List (BPPL). In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Hatim Sati, MD, from the WHO’s Division of Antimicrobial ...

This allows mathematical calculations to be made in order to predict how many bacteria will be present in a given time. The mean division time for bacteria population A is 20 minutes. If the ...