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Journal of Bacteriology, November 2008, p. 7579-7583, Vol. 190, No. 22
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00839-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Assemblies of DivIVA Mark Sites for Hyphal Branching and Can Establish New Zones of Cell Wall Growth in Streptomyces coelicolor{triangledown} ,§

Antje Marie Hempel,1 Sheng-bing Wang,1,2,¶ Michal Letek,3 José A. Gil,3 and Klas Flärdh1,2*

Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden,1 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden,2 Departamento de Biología Molecular, Área de Microbiología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de León, León, Spain3

Received 17 June 2008/ Accepted 6 September 2008

Time-lapse imaging of Streptomyces hyphae revealed foci of the essential protein DivIVA at sites where lateral branches will emerge. Overexpression experiments showed that DivIVA foci can trigger establishment of new zones of cell wall assembly, suggesting a key role of DivIVA in directing peptidoglycan synthesis and cell shape in Streptomyces.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, 223 62 Lund, Sweden. Phone: 46-46-2228584. Fax: 46-46-2224113. E-mail: klas.flardh{at}cob.lu.se

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 19 September 2008.

§ Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://jb.asm.org/.

Present address: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 North Warson Road, St. Louis, MO 63132.

Journal of Bacteriology, November 2008, p. 7579-7583, Vol. 190, No. 22
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00839-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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