Analysis of the essential cell division gene ftsL of Bacillus subtilis by mutagenesis and heterologous complementation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 5572-5579

  Sievers, J ^a   Errington, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0033802546     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.19.5572-5579.2000     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Requirements for transformation in Bacillus subtilis
2. Cloning and characterization of Bacillus subtilis homologs of Escherichia coli cell division genes ftsZ and ftsA
3. Nucleotide sequence and insertional activation of a Bacillus subtilis gene that affects cell division, sporulation and temperature sensitivity
4. FtsZ in Bacillus subtilis is required for vegetative septation and for asymmetric septation during sporulation
5. Impaired cell division and sporulation of a Bacillus subtilis strain with the ftsA gene deleted
6. Bacterial cell division
7. Intrinsic instability of the essential cell division protein FtsL of Bacillus subtilis, and a role for DivIB protein in FtsL turnover
8. Role of penicillin-binding protein PBP 2B in assembly and functioning of the division machinery of Bacillus subtilis
9. Characterisation of the essential cell division gene ftsL (yllD) of Bacillus subtilis and its role in assembly of the division apparatus
10. A complex four-gene operon containing essential cell division gene pbpB in Bacillus subtilis
11. Gene cloning techniques
12. Cell division in Escherichia coli: Role of FtsL domains in septal localization, function, and oligomerization
13. FtsL, an essential cytoplasmic membrane protein involved in cell division in Escherichia coli
14. Conservation of the 168 divIB gene in Bacillus subtilis W23 and B. licheniformis, and evidence for homology to ftsQ of Escherichia coli
15. Characterization of mutations in divIB of Bacillus subtilis and cellular localization of the DivIB protein
16. The membrane-bound cell division protein DivIB is localised to the division site in Bacillus subtilis
17. Characterization of cell cycle events during the onset of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis
18. Altered arrangement of proteins in the spore coat of a germination mutant of Bacillus subtilis
19. Suppression of TGA mutations in the Bacillus subtilis spoIIR gene by prfB mutations
20. The Bacillus subtilis division protein DivIC is a highly abundant membrane-bound protein that localises to the division site
21. Membrane-bound division proteins DivIB and DivIC of Bacillus subtilis function solely through their external domains in both vegetative and sporulation division
22. Salt stress is an environmental signal affecting digestive enzyme synthesis in Bacillus subtilis
23. Characterization of a cell division gene from Bacillus subtilis that is required for vegetative and sporulation septum formation
24. Prediction and analysis of coiled-coil structures
25. Predicting coiled coils from protein sequences
26. Bacterial cell division and the Z ring
27. Structure-function studies on Escherichia coli MetR protein, a putative prokaryotic leucine zipper protein
28. Gene expression systems for Bacillus subtilis
29. Evidence that the leucine zipper is a coiled coil
30. Systematics and ecology of Bacillus
31. Identification and characterization of cell wall-cell division gene clusters in pathogenic gram-positive cocci
32. Correlation between the structure and biochemical activities of FtsA, an essential cell division protein of the actin family
33. 54
34. The Bacillus subtilis cell division protein FtsL localises to sites of cell division and interacts with DivIC
35. FtsZ dynamics during the division cycle of live Escherichia coli cells
36. An efficient expression and secretion system based on Bacillus subtilis phage φ105 and its use for the purification of B. cereus β-lactamase I
37. Random chemical mutagenesis and the non-selective isolation of mutated DNA sequences in vitro
38. Analysis of the interaction of FtsZ with itself, GTP and FtsA