Most walled bacteria rely on the ancestral tubulin homolog FtsZ for cell division, which polymerizes into a ring-like structure (the Z ring) underneath of the cytoplasmic membrane to organize the ...

The outstanding question how the most basic cellular processes - mass growth, chromosome replication and cell division - are inter-coordinated in both space and time is still unresolved at the ...

Owing to the severity of these large aberrations that can affect multiple contiguous genes, no possible therapeutic strategies for ring chromosome disorders have been proposed. During cell division, ...