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Title

Bacterial development: Moving in the right direction.

Authors

Molloy, Sheilagh

Abstract

The article reports on the study that might solve the controversy over the function of SpoIIIE during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. It states that using a range of time-lapse fluorescence microscopy studies, the authors were able to show that there was a direct correlation between the polarity of SpoIIIE-mediated chromosome segregation and the position of oriC after septation, SpoIIIE moves the chromosome into the cell that contains the replication origin.

Subjects

BACILLUS subtilis; BACTERIA; MICROSCOPY; CHROMOSOMES; CELLS

Publication

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 1, p6

ISSN

1740-1526

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1038/nrmicro1823