Funding Information: This project was supported by award PTDC/BIA-MIC/29293/2017 to M.S. and has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 857203 to C.V.R. This study was financially supported by the Portuguese Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e Tecnologia (FCT), Projects MOSTMICRO-ITQB with references UIDB/04612/2020, and LS4FUT...
Funding Information: Z.H. was supported by FCT - Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia, I.P., through MOSTMICRO-ITQB R&D Unit ( https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04612/2020 ; https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/04612/2020 ) and LS4FUTURE Associated Laboratory ( https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0087/2020 ). Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society fo...
Funding Information: We would like to thank Hyung Don Ryoo, Andreas Bergmann, Iswar Hariharan, Patrick Emery, the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, FlyORF and the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB) for fly stocks, plasmids and antibodies. We would like to thank Hyung Don Ryoo, Avi Ashkenazi and Brenda Schulman for comments on the manuscript. We thank Julia Domingos (Insta: cenasdajul) for the art wo...
Funding Information: We thank members of the Pinho lab, P. Pereira (ITQB-NOVA), S. Filipe (FCT-NOVA) and J. Xiao (Johns Hopkins University) for helpful discussions; L. Lavis (Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn) for the generous gift of JF549-HTL, JF549-cpSTL and JFX650-STL; E. Harry (University of Technology, Sydney) for providing the anti-FtsZ antibody; T. Roemer (Merck) for providing DMPI; M. S. VanNieuwenhze (...
Funding Information: The authors thank all members of the Hensel, Xiao, and Lau laboratories for helpful discussions and feedback on the manuscript. Z.H. received support for this work from FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., through MOSTMICRO-ITQB R&D Unit (UIDB/04612/2020, UIDP/04612/2020, Z.H.) and LS4FUTURE Associated Laboratory (LA/P/0087/2020, Z.H.), from a joint research agreement with the ...
Funding Information: We thank the Infectious Diseases Imaging Platform (IDIP) at the Center for Integrative Infectious Disease Research Heidelberg, the cryo-EM network at the Heidelberg University (HD-cryoNET) and Heidelberg University Electron Microscopy Core Facility for support and assistance. The authors gratefully acknowledge the data storage service SDS@hd supported by the Ministry of Science, Research, a...
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