Caulobacter

Bingle, W.H., Nomellini, J.F. and Smit, J. (2000) Secretion of the Caulobacter crescentus S-layer protein further localization of the C-terminal secretion signal and its use for secretion of recombinant proteins. Journal of Bacteriology, 182 (11), 3298-3301. 

Umelo-Njaka, E., Nomellini, J.F., Yim, H. and Smit, J. (2001) Development of small high-copy-number plasmid vectors for gene expression in Caulobacter crescentus. Plasmid, 46 (1), 37 46. 

Phosphate Rho do spirillum rubrum Rhodobacter sphaeroidis Caulobacter crescentus Pseudomonas oleovorans... 

Figure 32-1 Comparison of cell division in three species of bacteria. Escherchia coli divides symmetrically after forming a septum in a plane marked by a ring of FtsZ (tubulin-like) and other cell division proteins. Caulobacter crescentus divides asymmetrically to give one flagellated swarmer cell and one stalked cell. Bacillus subtilis, under starvation conditions, divide to form a mother cell and a forespore. The latter is engulfed by the mother cell, which promotes its conversion to a resistant spore. From Shapiro and Losick.83 Courtesy of L. Shapiro.

Bacteria with stalks. Caulobacter crescentis spreads to new areas while retaining a presence at home. As is illustrated in Fig. 32-1, asymmetric division produces two distinctly different cells. One, like... 

Bartonella henselae CAF27376 Brucella melitensis NP 539763 Caulobacter crescentus AAK23868 Xanthobacter flavus AAC45452... 

Agrobacterium tumefaciens Brucella melitensis Burkholderia fungorum (2) Campylobacter jejuni Caulobacter crescentus Chlorobium tepidum Chloroflexus aurantiacus Deinococcus radiodurans Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum (2) Mesorhizobium loti (2) Methanosarcina acetivorans (2)b Methanosarcina mazei (2)b Mycobacterium tuberculosis Myxococcus xanthus Nostoc punctiforme (2)... 

Susin, M.F., Baldini, R.L., Gueiros-Filho, F., Gomes, S.L. (2006). GroES/GroEL and DnaK/DnaJ have distinct roles in stress responses and during cell cycle progression in Caulobacter crescentus. J. Bacterial. 188 8044-53. 

FIGURE 11. Growth of an oligocarbophilic bacterium, Caulobacter sp., on GPC fractionated DOM from Lake Plussee (from Stabel et al., 1979). I = apparent macromolecules (initial carbon concentration = 50 mg/L) II, = apparent oligomers (60 mg/L), III = low-molecular-weight materials (45 mg/L). Growth was measured as turbidity at 546 nm. 

N. Ravenscroft, S. G. Walker, G. G. Dutton, and J. Smit, Identification, isolation, and structural studies of extracellular polysaccharides produced by Caulobacter crescentus, J. Bacteriol., 173 (1991) 5677-5684. 

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