ZapA tetramerization is required for midcell localization and ZapB interaction in Escherichia coli biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Collaboration of Waldemar Vollmer, Tanneke den Blaauwen, Athanasios Typas labs identifies E. coli outer membrane lipoprotein Nlpl as scaffold coordinating #peptidoglycan synthase and hydrolases to allow #bacterial cell wall growth embopress.org/doi/10.15252/e…

The In Vitro Non-Tetramerizing ZapAI83E Mutant Is Unable to Recruit ZapB to the Division Plane In Vivo in Escherichia coli IJMS MDPI mdpi.com/703496

Yeah Dr. Saaki! Terrens Saaki

Chromosome dynamics and spatial organization during the non-binary cell cycle of a predatory bacterium biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Beautiful work from @LalouxLab @vrrenske Terrens Saaki et al. #Bdellobacterionomnom

Excited to share our latest article published in @plosgenetics: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a… #plosgeneticsauthor

New paper by Train2Target Elisa Consoli Tanneke den Blaauwen and Collet Lab The Escherichia coli Outer Membrane β‐Barrel Assembly Machinery (BAM) Anchors the Peptidoglycan Layer by Spanning It with all Subunits Congratulations to the authors! doi.org/10.3390/ijms22…

Interesting discussions with W. ended up in our last overview on class A PBPs, and why they are essential for walled bacteria in most of the cases (and not in B. subtilis). Regulation and function of class A Penicillin-binding proteins sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

For those of you who would like to cut your cells longitudinal for TEM, our new Comm Biol paper provides a nice method (and also shows why tetracycline induction should be used with care) nature.com/articles/s4200…

We're very happy to showcase this work by Train2Target's Elisa Consoli, Tanneke den Blaauwen'wen and their collaborator Joen Luirink. 👏👏👏 'The Escherichia coli Outer Membrane β-Barrel Assembly Machinery (BAM) Crosstalks with the Divisome.' doi.org/10.3390/ijms22…

They'll say it so casually

Sucrose density separation of DNA still holds surprises! See our Nat Gen paper showing for the 1st time an Insulator-like protein in bacteria. nature.com/articles/s4158…