Gene expression in members of the family Bacillaceae becomes compartmentalized after
the distinctive, asymmetrically located sporulation division. It involves complete …

▪ Abstract Bacteria exhibit a high degree of intracellular organization, both in the timing of
essential processes and in the placement of the chromosome, the division site, and …

Evidence is presented that the activation of the RNA polymerase σ factor σW in Bacillus
subtilis by regulated intramembrane proteolysis is governed by a novel, membrane …

Clostridium perfringens is the third most frequent cause of bacterial food poisoning annually
in the United States. Ingested C. perfringens vegetative cells sporulate in the intestinal tract …

The bacterial endospore cortex peptidoglycan is synthesized between the double
membranes of the developing forespore and is required for attainment of spore dehydration …

The proteolytic activation of the membrane-associated transcription factor pro-σ K is
controlled by a signal transduction pathway during sporulation in the bacterium Bacillus …

Bacillus subtilis is a bacterium that undergoes a developmental program of sporulation in
response to starvation. At the core of the program are σ factors, whose regulated …

Upon starvation Bacillus subtilis undergoes a developmental process involving creation of
two cell types, the mother cell and forespore. A signal in the form of a serine protease …

SpoIVB is the critical determinant for intercompartmental signalling of pro‐σK processing
during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. We show here that the SpoIVB serine peptidase can …

Intramembrane proteases (IPs) function in numerous signaling pathways that impact health,
but elucidating the regulation of membrane-embedded proteases is challenging. We …