Correct positioning of the cell division machinery is key to genome stability.
Chloroplasts are essential plant organelles that divide by binary fission through a coordinated ring-shaped division machinery located both on the outside and inside of the chloroplast.
Although some divisome proteins such as FtsZ are conserved among nearly all bacteria, other components of the cell division machinery diverge significantly to reflect the diversity of bacterial shapes.
In addition, the expression of OsRpoTp (encoding NEP core subunits, Hiratsuka et al. 1989) was increased, but the expression of FtsZ (encoding a component of the plastid division machinery, Takeuchi et al. 2007) was decreased significantly (Figure 7).
There is increasing evidence supporting the ability of nanomaterials to induce DNA damage through the promotion of oxidative stress, although direct interference with DNA and the cell division machinery has also been observed.
The knowledge derived by this study could constitute not only the basis for understanding how these proteins assemble in the divisome, but also a starting point for the design of new antibacterial drugs that disrupt the bacterial division machinery.
Recent data suggest that changes in mitochondrial dynamics and metabolic pathways such as oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) and glycolysis crosstalk with, and are tightly regulated by, the cell division machinery.
The centriole, a key component of the cellular control and division machinery, is 250 nm in diameter, a spatial scale where super-resolution methods such as stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy can provide previously unobtainable detail.
In cren- and thaumarchaea, however, the cell division machinery Cdv fulfills a similar role.
Mycobacteria share many components of the cell division machinery identified in other bacteria.
In organelles of symbiotic origin, such as the mitochondrion and chloroplasts, proteins of the bacterial division machinery are partially lost.
