DNA-membrane interactions can localize bacterial cell center

Avinoam Rabinovitch; Arieh Zaritsky; Mario Feingold

doi:10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00292-3

DNA-membrane interactions can localize bacterial cell center

Avinoam Rabinovitch, Arieh Zaritsky, Mario Feingold

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Abstract

In actively growing bacterial cells, the DNA exerts stress on the membrane, in addition to the turgor caused by osmotic pressure. This stress is applied through coupled transcription/translation and insertion of membrane proteins (so-called "transertion" process). In bacillary bacteria, the strength of this interaction varies along cell length with a minimum at its midpoint, and hence can locate the cell's equator for the assembly of the FtsZ-ring.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	493-496
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Theoretical Biology
Volume	225
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00292-3
State	Published - 21 Dec 2003

Keywords

FtsZ-ring assembly
Nucleoid occlusion
Symmetry in cell division
Tug of war

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Statistics and Probability
Modeling and Simulation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)
Immunology and Microbiology (all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all)
Applied Mathematics

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