Bacterial division: Finding the dividing line

Bacterial division: Finding the dividing line

Division of a cell - whether eukaryotic or prokaryotic - requires accurate spatial coordination. Recent work on the bacterium Escherichia coli has shown that correct placement of the cell division site at the midcell position occurs by a combination of selection against potential polar sites and selection of the midcell site.

There Is No Dividing Line

Dividing the Archaeal Way: The Ancient Cdv Cell-Division Machinery

Cell division in most prokaryotes is mediated by the well-studied fts genes, with FtsZ as the principal player. In many archaeal species, however, division is orchestrated differently. The Crenarchaeota phylum of archaea features the action of the three proteins, CdvABC. This Cdv system is a unique and less-well-studied division mechanism that merits closer inspection. In vivo, the three Cdv pr...

Positioning the Flagellum at the Center of a Dividing Cell To Combine Bacterial Division with Magnetic Polarity

UNLABELLED Faithful replication of all structural features is a sine qua non condition for the success of bacterial reproduction by binary fission. For some species, a key challenge is to replicate and organize structures with multiple polarities. Polarly flagellated magnetotactic bacteria are the prime example of organisms dealing with such a dichotomy; they have the challenge of bequeathing t...

A Dividing Line within Simple Unstable Theories

We give the first (ZFC) dividing line in Keisler’s order among the unstable theories, specifically among the simple unstable theories. That is, for any infinite cardinal λ for which there is μ < λ ≤ 2, we construct a regular ultrafilter D on λ such that (i) for any model M of a stable theory or of the random graph, M/D is λ-saturated but (ii) if Th(N) is not simple or not low then N/D is not λ-...