How do archaea find mid cell? They invent their own new system! Check out the preprint and admire those beautiful fluorescence images of @weiwaer.bsky.social
Happy to have been part of it🎉
Shamphavi Sivabalasarma
New preprint! Cell division has to happen at the right place but how Archaea pick that place is unknown. We now identified a three-protein system, Dip, that positions the divisome at midcell in H. volcanii and is broadly conserved across Archaea. A thread 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...