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Streptomyces morphogenetics: dissecting differentiation in a filamentous bacterium.

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Summary, in English

During the life cycle of the filamentous bacteria Streptomyces, morphological differentiation is closely integrated with fundamental growth and cell-cycle processes, as well as with truly complex multicellular behaviour that involves hormone-like extracellular signalling and coordination with an extraordinarily diverse secondary metabolism. Not only are the bacterial cytoskeleton and the machineries for cell-wall assembly, cell division and chromosome segregation reorganized during sporulation, but the developmental programme of these fascinating organisms also has many unusual elements, including the formation of a sporulating aerial mycelium and the production of a surfactant peptide and a hydrophobic sheath that allow cells to escape from the surface tension of the growth medium.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

36-49

Publication/Series

Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Volume

7

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Topic

  • Biological Sciences

Keywords

  • Streptomyces: cytology
  • Streptomyces: physiology

Status

Published

Research group

  • Microbiology Group

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1740-1534