An unexpected puzzle piece links polarity and chromosome segregation

Carmen E Wurzbacher; Muriel C F van Teeseling

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2021.07.008

An unexpected puzzle piece links polarity and chromosome segregation

Dev Cell. 2021 Aug 9;56(15):2135-2136. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.07.008.

Authors

Carmen E Wurzbacher¹, Muriel C F van Teeseling²

Affiliations

¹ Prokaryotic Cell Biology Group, Department of Microbial Interactions, Institute for Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
² Prokaryotic Cell Biology Group, Department of Microbial Interactions, Institute for Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany. Electronic address: muriel.van.teeseling@uni-jena.de.

PMID: 34375577
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.07.008

Abstract

To ensure successful daughter cell production with one chromosome each, C. crescentus bacteria use an extensively regulated phosphorelay to link all involved cellular processes. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Guzzo et al. (2021) show that the activity of this phosphorelay depends on the translocation of the segregating chromosome.

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MeSH terms

Bacterial Proteins
Chromosome Segregation* / genetics
Chromosomes, Bacterial* / genetics

Substances

Bacterial Proteins