Streptococcus suis MsmK: Novel Cell Division Protein Interacting with FtsZ and Maintaining Cell Shape-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Streptococcus suis MsmK: Novel Cell Division Protein Interacting with FtsZ and Maintaining Cell Shape

Published:2021-04-28 Issue:2 Volume:6 Page:
ISSN:2379-5042
Container-title:mSphere
language:en
Short-container-title:mSphere

Author:

Tan Mei-Fang¹,Hu Qiao²,Hu Zhe²,Zhang Chun-Yan²,Liu Wan-Quan²,Gao Ting³,Zhang Liang-Sheng²,Yao Lun²,Li Hai-Qin¹,Zeng Yan-Bin¹,Zhou Rui²⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchang, China

2. State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

3. Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

4. Cooperative Innovation Center of Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan, China

5. International Research Center for Animal Disease (Ministry of Science & Technology of China), Wuhan, China

Abstract

Bacterial cell division is a highly ordered process regulated in time and space and is a potential target for the development of antimicrobial drugs. Bacteria of distinct shapes depend on different cell division mechanisms, but the mechanisms used by ovococci remain largely unknown.

Funder

The National Key Research and Development Plans

The National Natural Science Foundation of China

The Hubei Province Natural Science Foundation for Innovative Research Groups

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mSphere.00119-21

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