I’m excited that the work by Diego Ramirez and Lei Yin is out, where they gained several key insights into what provides the force underlying bacterial cell division doi.org/10.1101/2025....
To divide, cells must first bend the membrane inward, a process that’s energetically expensive
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The interplay of membrane tension and FtsZ filament condensation on the initiation and progression of cell division in B. subtilis
The first step of cell division is deforming the planar cell membrane inward towards the cytoplasm. As deforming membranes is energetically costly, biology has developed various protein systems to acc...
