Cell division in bacteria is highly regulated in time and space. The use of micrometer-sized sample volumes and model membranes allows the pole-to-pole oscillations of spatial regulators for bacterial cell division to be reconstituted in a synthetic minimal system (see schematic picture left as well as the confocal images of Min proteins on lipid membranes in a polydimethylsiloxane microcompartment right).
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