The Xiao Lab
Selected Recent Publications
Zhixin Lyu, Atsushi Yahashiri, Xinxing Yang, Joshua W McCausland, Gabriela M Kaus, Ryan McQuillen, David S Weiss, Jie Xiao, FtsN maintains active septal cell wall synthesis by forming a processive complex with the septum-specific peptidoglycan synthases in E. coli, Nature Communications, 2022, 13(1), p5751
Xinxing Yang, Ryan McQuillen, Zhixin Lyu, Polly Phillips-Mason, Ana De La Cruz, Joshua W McCausland, Hai Liang, Kristen E DeMeester, Cintia C Santiago, Catherine L Grimes, Piet de Boer, Jie Xiao, A two-track model for the spatiotemporal coordination of bacterial septal cell wall synthesis revealed by single-molecule imaging of FtsW, Nature microbiology, 2021, 6(5), p584-593
Spatial organization of RNA polymerase and its relationship with transcription in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Sep 16;. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1903968116
GTPase activity-coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis. Science. 2017 Feb 17;355(6326):744-747
Defining the rate-limiting processes of bacterial cytokinesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Feb 23;113(8):E1044-53