...Athira Pushpakaran; Rachana Rao Battaje; Dulal Panda The respiratory pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae has acquired multiple-drug resistance over the years. An attractive strategy to combat pneumococcal infection is to target cell division to inhibit the proliferation of S. pneumoniae . This work...

...Zhang Feng; Jiahai Zhang; Da Xu; Yong-Liang Jiang; Cong-Zhao Zhou; Yuxing Chen The tubulin-like GTPase protein FtsZ, which forms a discontinuous cytokinetic ring at mid-cell, is a central player to recruit the division machinery to orchestrate cell division. To guarantee the production of two...

... formed were analyzed under the electron microscope. assembly bundling cell division poison viability FtsZ, a bacterial cytoskeletal protein, plays an important role in the division of bacterial cells. FtsZ monomers assemble to form a Z-ring at the mid-cell position...

...Ashoka Chary Taviti; Tushar Kant Beuria Cell division in bacteria is a highly controlled and regulated process. FtsZ, a bacterial cytoskeletal protein, forms a ring-like structure known as the Z-ring and recruits more than a dozen other cell division proteins. The Min system oscillates between...

... new antibacterial agents. FtsZ, a highly conserved bacterial protein, is responsible for the initiation of cell division in bacteria. The functions of FtsZ inside cells are tightly regulated and any perturbation in its functions leads to inhibition of bacterial division. Recent reports indicate...

...Katrina A. BICKNELL; Carmen H. COXON; Gavin BROOKS Repair of the mature mammalian myocardium following injury is impaired by the inability of the majority of cardiomyocytes to undergo cell division. We show that overexpression of the cyclin B1–CDC2 (cell division cycle 2 kinase) complex re...