Ines Barros-Medina

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications Publication Date 5-1-2025 Journal International Journal of Biological Macromolecules DOI 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.142691 PubMedCentral® Posted Date 1-2-2026 PubMedCentral® Full Text Version Author MSS Abstract An increasing number of proteins involved in bacterial cell cycle events have been recently shown to form biomolecular condensates important for their functions that may play a role in development of antibiotic-tolerant persister cells.

Abstract An increasing number of proteins involved in bacterial cell cycle events have been recently shown to undergo phase separation. The resulting biomolecular condensates play an important role in cell cycle protein function and may be involved in development of persister cells tolerant to antibiotics. Here we report that the E.

Abstract Bacterial cytokinesis is driven by a contractile ring of FtsZ protein polymers at midcell. FtsZ can also form phase-separated biomolecular condensates with potential implications for cytokinesis and development of antibiotic-tolerant persister cells. In Escherichia coli, FtsZ ring positioning depends in part on the MatP protein, which binds DNA sites (matS) in the chromosome terminus region and indirectly interacts with FtsZ through two other proteins.