Bacterial Cell Biology 
Bacterial cell biologists, along with the bacterial biochemists, represent one of the world’s largest groups exploiting bacteria to understand how cells work at the molecular level.
Using a wide range of biochemical, genetic and microscopic approaches, researchers reveal fundamental cell mechanisms including:
- Bacterial cell wall biosynthesis.
- Cell division including plasmid and chromosome segregation.
- Cellular response to phage infection.
- Genetic competence.
- The action of toxin – antitoxin genes and mRNA cleaving enzymes.
- Secretion chaperones involved in the regulation of flagellar assembly.
- Microbial protein secretion.
- Responses to environmental stress.
- Gene expression and regulatory networks.
- Determination and control of cell shape.
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