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Our group is funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación Universidades/Agencia Estatal de Investigación/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (RTI2018-093978-B-I00), Consejería de Empleo, Industria y Turismo del Principado de Asturias (FC-GRUPIN-IDI/2018/000120) and the European Research Council (ERC PoC StrepCryptPath with grant agreement ID 835857). Paula Yagüe was funded by a “Clarin” postdoctoral grant (ACA17-03), Consejería de Educación y Cultura del Principado de Asturias.

We thank the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant; Strp-diferentiation 280304) and the Spanish “Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad” (MINECO; BIO2015-65709-R and CTQ2016-80069-C2-1R) for fnancial support. Nathaly Gonzalez-Quiñonez was funded by a Severo Ochoa fellowship (FICYT, Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, Asturias, Spain). Roberto Álvarez-Fernández García was funded by “Fundación para la Investigación Biosanitaria de Asturias” (FINBA, Asturias, Spain). Tanks to Beatriz Gutierrez Magan (Universidad de Oviedo, Dpto. Biología Funcional, Área de Microbiología) for her laboratory assistance, Paul Dyson and Meirwyn Evans (Swansea University) for providing the disrupted cosmids, Wouter de Jong (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) for providing the S. coelicolor NepA mutant strain, Proof-ReadingService.com and Nature Publishing Group Language Editing service for proofreading the text.

This study was funded by the “Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación Universidades/Agencia Estatal de Investigación/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional” (RTI2018-093978-B-I00) and the “Consejería de Empleo, Industria y Turismo del Principado de Asturias” (SV-PA-21-AYUD/2021/51399). Gemma Fernández-García was funded by a predoctoral grant from the “Universidad de Oviedo”. Sergio Alonso was funded by a “Severo Ochoa” predoctoral grant from “Consejería de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidad del Principado de Asturias”. J.F. was funded by ISPA via a “Contrato Intramural Postdoctoral” 2021.

We thank the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant; Strp-differentiation 280304), and the Spanish ‘Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad’ (MINECO; BIO2015-65709-R) for financial support. Support for R.K. from the European Union was obtained through the H2020 Programme grant iNEXT (grant No. 653706). N.G.Q. was funded by a Severo Ochoa fellowship (FICYT, Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, Spain). We thank Joseph R McCormick and Stuart Cantlay (Duquesne University) for providing the ftsZ mutant HU133; Michael S. VanNieuwenhze (Indiana University) for providing a sample of HADA; Sébastien Rigali (University of Liège) and Katherine Celler (Leiden University) for stimulating discussions; Ermelinda Tinetti (Invitrogen) for providing a sample of YOPRO-1; Ana Salas Bustamante, Angel Martinez Nistal, Marta Alonso Guervos and Tania Iglesias (Servicios Científico-Técnicos de la Universidad de Oviedo) for their support with flow cytometry, confocal microscopy and statistics; and Beatriz Gutierrez Magan (Universidad de Oviedo, Dpto. Biología Funcional, Área de Microbiología) for her laboratory assistance.

This research was funded by an ERC Starting Grant (Strp-differentiation 280304). Our thanks to Beatriz Gutiérrez Magán (Universidad de Oviedo, Dpto. Biología Funcional, Área de Microbiología) for laboratory assistance, Paul Dyson and Meirwyn Evans (Swansea University) for providing the disrupted cosmids, Carlos Barreiro and Mar Calonge (INBIOTEC, Leon) for the mass spectrometry and amino acid analyses, Maggie Smith (University of York) for providing the pMS82 plasmid, and Nature Publishing Group Language Editing service for proof-reading the text. B.R., P.Y., M.T.L.G., N.G.Q. and E.B. performed the experiments; B.R., P.Y., E.B., F.M. and A.M. assisted with data analysis; all authors contributed to the critical discussion of the manuscript; B.R., F.M. and A.M. conceived, designed the work and wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

This study was funded by the European Research Council (ERC PoC Strpcryptpath 835857), the “Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación Universidades / Agencia Estatal de Investigación / Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional” (RTI2018-093978-B-I00) and the “Consejería de Empleo, Industria yTurismo del Principado de Asturias” (FC-GRUPIN-IDI/2018/000120). Gemma Fernández-Garcíawas funded by a pre-doctoral grant from the “Universidad de Oviedo”. Sergio Alonso and IgnacioGutiérrez-Del-Río were funded by two “Severo Ochoa” predoctoral grants from “Consejería deCiencia, Innovación y Universidad del Principado de Asturias”.