Divisome

Core members of the divisome

• FtsL
• FtsW
• PBP 2B
• DivIB
• DivIC

Other members of the divisome

• FtsZ
• FtsA
• PBP 1A/1B
• DivIVA
• EzrA
• GpsB
• SepF
• ZapA

Related pages

• cell division

Important Reviews

Sven Halbedel, Richard J Lewis
Structural basis for interaction of DivIVA/GpsB proteins with their ligands.
Mol Microbiol: 2019, 111(6);1404-1415
[PubMed:30887576] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Tanneke den Blaauwen, Leendert W Hamoen, Petra Anne Levin
The divisome at 25: the road ahead.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2017, 36;85-94
[PubMed:28254403] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Alexander J F Egan, Waldemar Vollmer
The stoichiometric divisome: a hypothesis.
Front Microbiol: 2015, 6;455
[PubMed:26029191] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Mary-Jane Tsang, Thomas G Bernhardt
Guiding divisome assembly and controlling its activity.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2015, 24;60-5
[PubMed:25636132] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Piotr Szwedziak, Jan Löwe
Do the divisome and elongasome share a common evolutionary past?
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2013, 16(6);745-51
[PubMed:24094808] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Orietta Massidda, Linda Nováková, Waldemar Vollmer
From models to pathogens: how much have we learned about Streptococcus pneumoniae cell division?
Environ Microbiol: 2013, 15(12);3133-57
[PubMed:23848140] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Important Original Publications

Kevin D Whitley, James Grimshaw, David M Roberts, Eleni Karinou, Phillip J Stansfeld, Séamus Holden
Peptidoglycan synthesis drives a single population of septal cell wall synthases during division in Bacillus subtilis.
Nat Microbiol: 2024, 9(4);1064-1074
[PubMed:38480901] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)