Asymmetric division and differential gene expression during a bacterial developmental program requires DivIVA.

Sporulation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis is a developmental program in which a progenitor cell differentiates into two different cell types, the smaller of which eventually becomes a dormant cell called a spore. The process begins with an asymmetric cell division event, followed by the activat...

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Main Authors: Prahathees Eswaramoorthy, Peter W Winter, Peter Wawrzusin, Andrew G York, Hari Shroff, Kumaran S Ramamurthi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4125091?pdf=render