Molecular self-organziation, also regarded as pattern formation, is crucial for the correct
distribution of cellular content. The processes leading to spatiotemporal patterns often …

Bacillus subtilis is the best described member of the Gram positive bacteria. It is a typical rod
shaped bacterium and grows by elongation in its long axis, before dividing at mid cell to …

A systems-level understanding of Gram-positive bacteria is important from both an
environmental and health perspective and is most easily obtained when high-quality …

When faced with starvation, the bacterium Bacillus subtilis transforms itself into a dormant
cell type called a" spore". Sporulation initiates with an asymmetric division event, which …

Reproduction in the bacterial kingdom predominantly occurs through binary fission—a
process in which one parental cell is divided into two similarly sized daughter cells. How cell …

The last three decades have witnessed an explosion of discoveries about the mechanistic
details of binary fission in model bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, and …

Many bacteria can form wall-deficient variants, or L-forms, that divide by a simple
mechanism that does not require the FtsZ-based cell division machinery. Here, we use …

SMC complexes, loaded at ParB-parS sites, are key mediators of chromosome organization
in bacteria. ParA/Soj proteins interact with ParB/Spo0J in a pathway involving adenosine …

The spheroid bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is often used as a model of morphogenesis
due to its apparently simple cell cycle. S. aureus has many cell division proteins that are …

Bacterial cell proliferation is highly efficient, both because bacteria grow fast and multiply
with a low failure rate. This efficiency is underpinned by the robustness of the cell cycle and …