Cell Cycle Control: Prokaryotic Solutions to Eukaryotic Problems?

Norris, Victor; Ayala, Juan A.; Begg, K J; Bouché, Jean‐Pierre; Bouloc, Philippe; Boye, Erik; Canvin, James R.; Casarégola, Serge; Cozzone, Alain J.; Crooke, Elliott; D’Ari, Richard; Pedro, Miguel A. de; Donachie, W.; Doyle, Ronald J.; Drapeau, Gabriel R.; Fontana, Roberta; Foster, Serene; Fralick, Joe A.; Freestone, Primrose; Gayda, Randall C.; Goldberg, Martin D.; Grant, Susan; Guzmán, Elena C.; Hageman, James H.; Higgins, C. F.; Hofnung, Maurice; Holland, I. B.; Höltje, Joachim‐Volker; Hughes, Philip F.; Inouye, Masayori; Inouye, Sumiko; Jaffe, Ari; Jiménez‐Sánchez, Alfonso; Joseleau‐Petit, Danièle; Keck, Wolfgang; Képès, François; Kornberg, Abraham; Kuempel, Peter L.; Labischinski, Harald; Løbner‐Olesen, Anders; Lutkenhaus, Joe; March, P.; Matsuhashi, Michio; McGurk, Gordon; Messer, Walter; Meury, Jean; Milner, Yoram; Modha, K.; Nagai, Kazuo; Nagata, Toshiyuki; Nishimura, Yoshiaki; Normark, Staffan; Orr, Elisha; Ottolenghi, Andrea; Paolozzi, L.; Poulsen, Peter; Rebollo, J. E.; Ron, Eliora Z.; Rouvière‐Yaniv, Josette; Rudd, Kenneth E.; Salmond, George P. C.; Satta, G.; Schwarz, U.; Séror, Simone J.; Simon, Amos J.; Spratt, Brian G.; Sreekumar, K. R.; Sweeney, Sean T.; Tóth, Balázs István; Utsumi, Ryutaro; Vinella, Daniel; Wachi, Masaaki; Wilkins, Brian M.; Williams, P. H.; Yanofsky, Charles

doi:10.1006/jtbi.1994.1102

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“…There is a third class of models that assume the existence of mechano-proteins that could exert forces, causing extension over the length of the cell or contraction over the width of a cell (Norris et al, 1994). This is in spite of the fact that there is no evidence of force-generating proteins in bacteria (Koch, 1991(Koch, , 1998 and in addition although clearly FtsZ and FtsA have a homology to tubulin and actin and are involved in cell division they cannot have a role in constraining the diameter of the cell because of their small numbers and their distribution within the bulk of the cell throughout the cell cycle.…”

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Patchiness of murein insertion into the sidewall of Escherichia coli

2003

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This paper extends, with computer techniques, the authors' previous work on the kinetics of pole wall and sidewall synthesis in Escherichia coli. These findings extend the conclusion that the nascent poles are made of entirely new material and that no new material is inserted into old poles. This requires re-evaluation of ideas in the literature about wall growth and cell division. Mechanisms of various types have been suggested for the growth of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria and these will also require major re-evaluation because of the finding, reported here, that the sidewall is made in several modes: patches of new murein, bands of new material largely going circumferentially around the cell, and areas of the sidewall that are enlarged by an intimate and regular admixture of new with the old muropeptides.

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Patchiness of murein insertion into the sidewall of Escherichia coli

2003

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“…It has long been evident that bacteria are highly structured (for references see Norris et al, 1994). It is now emerging that this structuring is in the form of hyperstructures which are large, physically linked, assemblies of macromolecules that serve specific functions (Norris et al, 2007a).…”

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The membrane: transertion as an organizing principle in membrane heterogeneity

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The bacterial membrane exhibits a significantly heterogeneous distribution of lipids and proteins. This heterogeneity results mainly from lipid–lipid, protein–protein, and lipid–protein associations which are orchestrated by the coupled transcription, translation and insertion of nascent proteins into and through membrane (transertion). Transertion is central not only to the individual assembly and disassembly of large physically linked groups of macromolecules (alias hyperstructures) but also to the interactions between these hyperstructures. We review here these interactions in the context of the processes in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli of nutrient sensing, membrane synthesis, cytoskeletal dynamics, DNA replication, chromosome segregation, and cell division.

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“…Early evidence for a bacterial actin (for references see [43]), including sequence analysis [44], became difficult to ignore when actin-like filaments of MreB were discovered in B. subtilis [33]. The crystal structure of MreB was subsequently shown to resemble that of actin [45]; filaments formed by MreB have a short pitch (0.73 ± 0.12 mm) and assemble around the middle of the cell whilst those formed by Mbl, a structurally related bacterial protein, have a longer pitch (1.7 ± 0.28 mm) and cross the entire cell [33].…”

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The Eukaryotic Cell Originated in the Integration and Redistribution of Hyperstructures from Communities of Prokaryotic Cells Based on Molecular Complementarity

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2009

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In the “ecosystems-first” approach to the origins of life, networks of non-covalent assemblies of molecules (composomes), rather than individual protocells, evolved under the constraints of molecular complementarity. Composomes evolved into the hyperstructures of modern bacteria. We extend the ecosystems-first approach to explain the origin of eukaryotic cells through the integration of mixed populations of bacteria. We suggest that mutualism and symbiosis resulted in cellular mergers entailing the loss of redundant hyperstructures, the uncoupling of transcription and translation, and the emergence of introns and multiple chromosomes. Molecular complementarity also facilitated integration of bacterial hyperstructures to perform cytoskeletal and movement functions.

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Cell Cycle Control: Prokaryotic Solutions to Eukaryotic Problems?

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Patchiness of murein insertion into the sidewall of Escherichia coli

Patchiness of murein insertion into the sidewall of Escherichia coli

The membrane: transertion as an organizing principle in membrane heterogeneity

The Eukaryotic Cell Originated in the Integration and Redistribution of Hyperstructures from Communities of Prokaryotic Cells Based on Molecular Complementarity

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