How bacteria grow and divide while retaining a defined shape is a fundamental question in
microbiology, but technological advances are now driving a new understanding of how the …

Spatial organization is a hallmark of all living systems. Even bacteria, the smallest forms of
cellular life, display defined shapes and complex internal organization, showcasing a highly …

Eukaryotic cells spatially organize mRNA processes such as translation and mRNA decay.
Much less is clear in bacterial cells where the spatial distribution of mature mRNA remains …

Filament-forming cytoskeletal proteins are essential for the structure and organization of all
cells. Bacterial homologues of the major eukaryotic cytoskeletal families have now been …

The stress-bearing component of the bacterial cell wall—a multi-gigadalton bag-like
molecule called the sacculus—is synthesized from peptidoglycan. Whereas the chemical …

In prokaryotes, FtsZ (the f ilamentous t emperature s ensitive protein Z) is a nearly ubiquitous
GTPase that localizes in a ring at the leading edge of constricting plasma membranes during …

The widely conserved ParABS system plays a major role in bacterial chromosome
segregation. How the components of this system work together to generate translocation …

The FtsZ protein is a highly conserved bacterial tubulin homolog. In vivo, the functional form
of FtsZ is the polymeric, ring-like structure (Z-ring) assembled at the future division site …

We present an efficient algorithm for nonlocal image filtering with applications in electron
cryomicroscopy. Our denoising algorithm is a rewriting of the recently proposed nonlocal …

Cell polarization is an integral part of many unrelated bacterial processes. How intrinsic cell
polarization is achieved is poorly understood. Here, we provide evidence that Caulobacter …