ylmD and ylmE genes are dispensable for growth, cross-wall formation and sporulation in Streptomyces venezuelae.

ABSTRACT: Streptomycetes are Gram-positive filamentous soil bacteria that grow by tip extension and branching, forming a network of multinucleoid hyphae. These bacteria also have an elaborate process of morphological differentiation, which involves the formation of an aerial mycelium that eventually undergoes extensive septation into chains of uninucleoid cells that further metamorphose into spores. The tubulin-like FtsZ protein is essential for this septation process. Most of the conserved cell division genes (including ftsZ) have been inactivated in Streptomyces without the anticipated lethality, based on studies of many other bacteria. However, there are still some genes of the Streptomyces division and cell wall (dcw) cluster that remain uncharacterized, the most nota

SUBMITTER: Santos-Beneit F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5701809 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature