Cell division machinery drives cell-specific gene activation during differentiation in .

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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Mar 6;121(13):e2400584121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2400584121

Cell division machinery drives cell-specific gene activation during differentiation in . Shroff Lab

Chareyre S, Li X, Anjuwon-Foster BR, Updegrove TB, Clifford S, Brogan AP, Su Y, Zhang L, Chen J, Shroff H, Ramamurthi KS

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Abstract

When faced with starvation, the bacterium transforms itself into a dormant cell type called a "spore". Sporulation initiates with an asymmetric division event, which requires the relocation of the core divisome components FtsA and FtsZ, after which the sigma factor σ is exclusively activated in the smaller daughter cell. Compartment-specific activation of σ requires the SpoIIE phosphatase, which displays a biased localization on one side of the asymmetric division septum and associates with the structural protein DivIVA, but the mechanism by which this preferential localization is achieved is unclear. Here, we isolated a variant of DivIVA that indiscriminately activates σ in both daughter cells due to promiscuous localization of SpoIIE, which was corrected by overproduction of FtsA and FtsZ. We propose that the core components of the redeployed cell division machinery drive the asymmetric localization of DivIVA and SpoIIE to trigger the initiation of the sporulation program.

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Cell division machinery drives cell-specific gene activation during differentiation in .

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PMID: 38502707 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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