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Unexpected twist to the Z ring
1Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Developmental Cell
|May 23, 2002
Abstract:
Development in Bacillus subtilis involves a switch in the location of the cytokinetic Z ring from midcell to the pole. Time lapse photography of an FtsZ-GFP fusion reveals that this switch involves a spiral intermediate and allows identification of the specific sporulation functions involved.