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- Title
Is MipZ the new MinCD?
- Authors
Jones, Susan
- Abstract
The article provides information about the research on a new player in cell division which aligns positioning of the cytokinetic FtsZ ring characterized in MipZ. Researchers Thanbichler and Shapiro have characterized this new player which results to cell fission, with segregation of a new replicated chromosomes when it contracts. Meanwhile, it has also indicated that in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis the Min system, however Caulobacter crescentus lacks both of these system.
- Subjects
CELL division; CELL proliferation; ESCHERICHIA coli; CHROMOSOMES; BACILLUS subtilis; BACILLUS (Bacteria)
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2006, Vol 4, Issue 9, p643
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro1503