Recent investigations in bacteria suggest that membraneless organelles play a crucial role
in the subcellular organization of bacterial cells. However, the biochemical functions and …

Bacterial morphology is extremely diverse. Specific shapes are the consequence of adaptive
pressures optimizing bacterial fitness. Shape affects critical biological functions, including …

It is now well appreciated that bacterial cells are highly organized, which is far from the initial
concept that they are merely bags of randomly distributed macromolecules and chemicals …

Caulobacter crescentus is an aquatic Gram-negative alphaproteobacterium that undergoes
multiple changes in cell shape, organelle production, subcellular distribution of proteins, and …

Virulence of pathogenic bacteria is a tightly controlled process to facilitate invasion and
survival in host tissues. Although pathways controlling virulence have been defined in detail …

The cell poles constitute key subcellular domains that are often critical for motility,
chemotaxis, and chromosome segregation in rod-shaped bacteria. However, in nearly all …

Abstract Background In the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, CtrA coordinates DNA
replication, cell division, and polar morphogenesis and is considered the cell cycle master …

Each Caulobacter cell cycle involves differentiation and an asymmetric cell division driven
by a cyclical regulatory circuit comprised of four transcription factors (TFs) and a DNA …

Asymmetric cell division (ACD) produces morphologically and behaviorally distinct cells and
is the primary way to generate cell diversity. In the model bacterium Caulobacter crescentus …

2D and 3D cryo-electron microscopy, together with adsorption kinetics assays of ϕCb13 and
ϕCbK phage-infected Caulobacter crescentus, provides insight into the mechanisms of …