Divisome by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
The bacterial machinery assembling and remodeling the envelope at the division site.
Components assemble around a selected site, coordinate membrane constriction and build the new cell-envelope boundary. FtsZ helps organize that machinery in many bacteria. A division defect can therefore arise from faulty placement, assembly or envelope synthesis. [ref]

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