Bacterial Cell Division: Cell Growth and Binary Fission explained in under 15 minutes

In this video you will learn how bacterial binary fission is done. How is cell division connected to bacterial growth in bacteria?

Moreover we will look on molecular level, which important factors are part of bacterial cell division.
Here we have the divisom consisting of fts-proteins including the FtsZ protein forming a ring around the cell body to seperate both daugther cells during bacterial cell division.

To divide into two cells, new parts of the cell wall must be synthesized, including peptidoglycan synthesis.
One essential step in bacterial cell division is the synthesis of new peptidglycan, but how is it intergrade into the existing cell wall?

This is MiBIOs first episode of lecture-videos giving you insights into the world of Micro- and Molecularbiology.

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[enigmasunder]

This is super awesome! You deserve more viewers and more subscription!

[soapy]

saved my microbiology grade, thank you!!

[bohdanoryshkevich]

This is a very good introductory lecture to bacterial cell division. It provides a broad valuable overview.

[emlynn]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much

[rgudduu]

Who/what triggers (the first step of) the cell division process? Is it the ftsz proteins? If so, are these created inside the cell after some time of the cell's creation?