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Cell division licensing in the multi-chromosomal $Vibrio\ cholerae$ bacterium

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Cell division must be coordinated with chromosome replication and segregation to ensure the faithful transmission of genetic information during proliferation. In most bacteria, assembly of the division apparatus, the divisome, starts with the polymerization of a tubulin homologue, FtsZ, into a ring-like structure at mid-cell, the Z-ring(1). It typically occurs at half of the cell cycle when most of the replication and segregation cycle of the unique chromosome they generally harbour is achieved(2). The chromosome itself participates in the regulation of cell division, at least in part because it serves as a scaffold to position FtsZ polymerization antagonists(3). However, about 10% of bacteria have more than one chromosome(4), which raises questions about the way they license cell division(3). For instance, the genome of Vibrio cholerae, the agent of cholera, is divided between a 3 Mbp replicon that originates from the chromosome of its mono-chromosomal ancestor, Chr1, and a 1 Mbp plasmid-derived replicon, Chr2 (ref. 5). Here, we show that Chr2 harbours binding motifs for an inhibitor of Z-ring formation, which helps accurately position the V. cholerae divisome at mid-cell and postpones its assembly to the very end of the cell cycle.
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Elisa Galli, Mickaël Poidevin, Romain Le Bars, Jean-Michel Desfontaines, Leila Muresan, et al.. Cell division licensing in the multi-chromosomal $Vibrio\ cholerae$ bacterium. Nature Microbiology, 2016, 1, pp.16094. ⟨10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.94⟩. ⟨hal-01358405⟩
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