Unpacking the mysteries of bacterial cell cycle regulation
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
As part of their long-term investigation of regulatory factors in the bacterial cell cycle, molecular biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst now report finding a surprising new role for one factor, CpdR, an adaptor that helps to regulate selective protein destruction, the main control mechanism of cell cycle progression in bacteria, at specific times.