Novel Divisome-Associated Protein Spatially Coupling the Z-Ring with the Chromosomal Replication Terminus in Caulobacter crescentus

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank A. Schmidt and E. Lezan for the MS analysis, C. Beisel for sequencing, A.

Kaczmarczyk for plasmid construction and critical review of the manuscript, and F.

Hamburger and K. Ozaki for plasmid construction.

This work was supported by an ERC grant and MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI (grant number

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