Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PomXYZ (The PomXYZ cluster in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus: Self-assembly, translocation, and fission of an active protein complex that guides cell division)

Subcellular self-organization is fundamentally necessary for cellular life, and in particular for cell division. There, the future cell division site at midcell needs to be marked for the cell division machinery. In the rod-shaped bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, the proteins...