Shishen Du

@DuShishen

Bacterial geneticist at the University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas, USA Joined October 2018

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Shishen Du @DuShishen Mar 4, 2024

We're thrilled to see our first work on archaeal cell division is finally online! We discovered that members of the widely conserved PRC-barrel protein family play important roles in FtsZ-dependent archaeal division. nature.com/articles/s4156…

www.nature.com Widespread photosynthesis reaction centre barrel proteins are necessary for haloarchaeal cell... Nature Microbiology - Photosynthesis reaction centre barrel proteins are important components of the FtsZ-based cell division apparatus in Haloferax volcanii and other archaea.

Shishen Du @DuShishen Jan 14, 2024

This is really cool! B. subtilis can still divide without ZapA, MinC, MinJ, UgtP, ClpX, Noc, EzrA and FtsA simultaneously.

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio Jan 14, 2024

Divisome minimization shows that FtsZ and SepF can form an active Z-ring, and reveals BraB as a new cell division influencing ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio
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Shishen Du @DuShishen Dec 17, 2023

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Shishen Du @DuShishen Mar 29, 2023

Extremely excited to share our first preprint on archaeal cell division!
Widespread PRC barrel proteins play critical roles in archaeal cell division biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

www.biorxiv.org Widespread PRC barrel proteins play critical roles in archaeal cell division Cell division is fundamental to all cellular life. Most of the archaea employ one of two alternative division machineries, one centered around the prokaryotic tubulin homolog FtsZ and the other...

Shishen Du @DuShishen Mar 14, 2023

Great collaboration with colleague Xiandong, @mkrupovic and @Ying74382828 to show that "A virus-borne DNA damage signaling pathway controls the lysogeny-induction switch in a group of temperate pleolipoviruses" academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

academic.oup.com A virus-borne DNA damage signaling pathway controls the lysogeny-induction switch in a group of... Abstract. Many prokaryotic viruses are temperate and their reactivation is tightly regulated. However, except for a few bacterial model systems, the regula