Life without Division: Physiology of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Escherichia coli</named-content> FtsZ-Deprived Filaments
ABSTRACT When deprived of FtsZ, Escherichia coli cells (VIP205) grown in liquid form long nonseptated filaments due to their inability to assemble an FtsZ ring and their failure to recruit subsequent divisome components. These filaments fail to produce colonies on solid medium, in which synthesis of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2016-11-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01620-16 |