Dependency of Escherichia coli cell-division size, and independency of nucleoid segregation on the mode and level of ftsZ expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1093-1098

  Palacios, Pilar ^a   Vicente, Miguel ^a   Sánchez, Manuel ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEGREGATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029977828     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02549.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aldea, M., Garrido, T., Pla, J., and Vicente, M. (1990) Division genes in Escherichia coli are expressed coordinately to cell septum requirements by gearbox promoters. EMBO J 9: 3787-3794.
2. Ayala, J.A., Garrido, T., de Pedro, M.A., and Vicente, M. (1994) Molecular biology of bacterial septation. In New Comprehensive Biochemistry Vol. 27: bacterial cell wall. Hakenbeck, R., and Ghuysen, J.-M. (eds). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, pp. 73-101.
3. Beall, B., Lowe, M., and Lutkenhaus, J. (1988) Cloning and characterization of Bacillus subtilis homologs of Escherichia coli cell division genes ftsZ and ftsA. J Bacteriol 170: 4855-4864.
4. Bi, E., and Lutkenhaus, J. (1991) FtsZ ring structure associated with division in Escherichia coli. Nature 354: 161-164.
5. de Boer, P.A.J., Crossley, R.E., and Rothfield, L.I. (1992) The essential bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ is a GTPase. Nature 359: 254-256.
6. Bramhill, D., and Thompson, C.M. (1994) GTP-dependent polymerization of Escherichia coli FtsZ protein to form tubules. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91: 5813-5817.
7. Bukau, B., and Walker, G.C. (1989) dnaK52 mutants of Escherichia coli have defects in chromosome segregation and plasmid maintenance at normal growth temperatures. J Bacteriol 171: 6030-6038.
8. Busby, S., Aiba, H., and de Crombrugghe, B. (1982) Mutations in the Escherichia coli operon that define two promoters and the binding site of the cyclic AMP receptor protein. J Mol Biol 154: 211-227.
9. Corton, J.C., Ward, Jr, J.E., and Lutkenhaus, J. (1987) Analysis of cell division gene ftsZ (sulB) from Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. J Bacteriol 169: 1-7.
10. Dai, K., and Lutkenhaus, J. (1991) ftsZ is an essential cell division gene in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 173: 3500-3506.
11. Donachie, W.D., and Robinson, A.C. (1987) Cell division: parameters, values and the process. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. Neidhardt, F.C. (ed.). Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology, pp. 1578-1593.
12. Garrido, T., Sánchez, M., Palacios, P., Aldea, M., and Vicente, M. (1993) Transcription of ftsZ oscillates during the cell cycle of Escherichia coli. EMBO J 12: 3957-3965.
13. Ghelardini, P., Lauri, P., Ruberti, I., Orlando, V., and Paolozzi, L. (1991) Synchronous division induced in Escherichia coli K-12 by phage Mu: analysis of DNA topology and gene expression during the cell cycle. Res Microbiol 142: 259-267.
14. Hiraga, S., Niki, H., Ogura, T., Ichinose, C., Mori, H., Ezaki, B., and Jaffé, A. (1989) Chromosome partitioning in Escherichia coli: novel mutants producing anucleate cells. J Bacteriol 171: 1496-1505.
15. Hirota, Y., Ryter, A., and Jacob, F. (1968) Thermosensitive mutants of Escherichia coli affected in the process of DNA synthesis and cellular division. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 33: 677-694.
16. Lutkenhaus, J.F. (1990) Regulation of cell division in E. coli. Trends Genet 6: 22-25.
17. McCormick, J.R., Su, E.P., Driks, A., and Losick, R. (1994) Growth and viability of Streptomyces coelicolor mutant for the cell division gene ftsZ. Mol Microbiol 14: 243-254
18. Mukherjee, A., and Lutkenhaus, J. (1994) Guanine nucleotide-dependent assembly of FtsZ into filaments. J Bacteriol 176: 2754-2758.
19. Mukherjee, A., Dai, K., and Lutkenhaus, J. (1993) Escherichia coli cell division protein FtsZ is a guanine nucleotide binding protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 90: 1053-1057.
20. Pla, J., Sánchez, M., Palacios, P., Vicente, M., and Aldea, M. (1991) Preferential cytoplasmic location of FtsZ, a protein essential for Escherichia coli septation. Mol Microbiol 5: 1681-1686.
21. Pla J., Palacios, P., Sánchez, M., Garrido, T., and Vicente, M. (1993) Stability of components of the Escherichia coli septator. In Bacterial growth and lysis: metabolism and structure of the bacterial sacculus. de Pedro, M.A, Höltje, J.-V., and Löffelhardt, W. (eds). New York: Plenum Publishing Co., Ltd, pp. 363-368.
22. RayChaudhuri, D., and Park, J.T. (1992) Escherichia coli cell division gene ftsZ encodes a novel GTP-binding protein. Nature 359: 251-254.
23. Tétart, F., and Bouché, J.-P. (1992) Regulation of the expression of the cell-cycle gene ftsZ by DicF antisense RNA. Division does not require a fixed number of FtsZ molecules. Mol Microbiol 6: 615-620.
24. Tétart, F., Albigot, R., Conter, A., Mulder, E., and Bouché, J.-P. (1992) Involvement of FtsZ in coupling of nucleoid separation with septation. Mol Microbiol 6: 621-627.
25. Ward, J.E., and Lutkenhaus, J. (1985) Overproduction of FtsZ induces minicell formation in E. coli. Cell 42: 941-949.
26. Zhou, P., and Helmstetter, C.E. (1994) Relationship between ftsZ gene expression and chromosome replication in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 176: 6100-6106.