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Can a flux-based mechanism explain positioning of protein clusters in a three-dimensional cell geometry?
The plane of bacterial cell division must be precisely positioned. In the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus , the proteins PomX and PomY form a large cluster, which is tethered to the nucleoid by the ATPase PomZ and moves in a stochastic, but biased manner towards midcell, where it initiates cell division. …