Rings and networks: The amazing complexity of FtsZ in chloroplasts

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 103-105

  Reski, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; TUBULIN;

BACTERIUM; CHLOROPLAST; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACTINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0036516001     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02232-X     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Bi, E.F. and Lutkenhaus, J. (1991) FtsZ ring structure associated with division in Escherichia coli. Nature 354, 161-164
2. Raychaudhuri, D. and Park, J.T. (1992) Escherichia coli cell-division gene ftsZ encodes a novel GTP-binding protein. Nature 359, 251-254
3. de Boer, P. et al. (1992) The essential bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ is a GTPase. Nature 359, 254-256
4. Erickson, H.P. (1997) FtsZ, a tubulin homologue in prokaryote cell division. Trends Cell Biol. 7, 362-367
5. Löwe, J. and Amos, L.A. (1998) Crystal structure of the bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ. Nature 391, 203-206
6. Osteryoung, K.W. and Vierling, E. (1995) Conserved cell and organelle division. Nature 376, 473-474
7. Strepp, R. et al. (1998) Plant nuclear gene knockout reveals a role in plastid division for the homolog of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ, an ancestral tubulin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 95, 4368-4373
8. Osteryoung, K.W. et al. (1998) Chloroplast division in higher plants requires members of two functionally divergent gene families with homology to bacterial ftsZ. Plant Cell 10, 1991-2004
9. Kiessling, J. et al. (2000) Visualization of a cytoskeleton-like FtsZ network in chloroplasts. J. Cell Biol. 151, 945-950
10. McAndrew, R.S. et al. (2001) Colocalization of plastid division proteins in the chloroplast stromal compartment establishes a new functional relationship between FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 in higher plants. Plant Physiol. 127, 1656-1666
11. Kuroiwa, T. (1998) The division apparatus of plastids and mitochondria. Int. Rev. Cytol. 181, 1-41
12. Mori, T. et al. (2001) Visualization of an FtsZ ring in chloroplasts of Lilium longiflorum leaves. Plant Cell Physiol. 42, 555-559
13. Vitha, S. et al. (2001) FtsZ ring formation at the chloroplast division site in plants. J. Cell Biol. 153, 111-120
14. Miyagishima, S-y. et al. (2001) Novel filaments 5 nm in diameter constitute the cytosolic ring of the plastid division apparatus. Plant Cell 13, 707-721
15. Miyagishima, S-y. et al. (2001) Plastid division is driven by a complex mechanism that involves differential transition of the bacterial and eukaryotic division rings. Plant Cell 13, 2257-2268
16. Ward, J.E. and Lutkenhaus, J. (1985) Overproduction of FtsZ induces mini-cell formation in E. coli. Cell 42, 941-949
17. Hoffman, L. (1967) Observations on the fine structure of Oedogonium. III. Microtubular elements in the chloroplasts of Oe. cardiacum. J. Phycol. 3, 212-221
18. Sprey, B. (1968) Zur Feinstruktur des Plastidenstromas von Hordeum vulgare L. Protoplasma 66, 469-479
19. Lawrence, M.E. and Possingham, J.V. (1984) Observations of microtubule-like structures within spinach plastids. Biol. Cell 52, 77-82
20. McFadden, G.I. (2000) Skeletons in the closet. How do chloroplasts stay in shape? J. Cell Biol. 151, F19-F22
21. Beech, P.L. et al. (2000) Mitochondrial FtsZ in a chromophyte alga. Science 287, 1276-1279
22. Takahara, M. et al. (2000) A putative mitochondrial ftsZ gene is present in the unicellular primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Mol. Gen. Genet. 264, 452-460
23. Osteryoung, K.W. (2001) Organelle fission in eukaryotes. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 4, 639-646
24. Margolin, W. (1998) A green light for the bacterial cytoskeleton. Trends Microbiol. 6, 233-238
25. van den Ent, F. et al. (2001) Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton. Nature 413, 39-44
26. Erickson, H.P. (2001) Cytoskeleton. Evolution in bacteria. Nature 413, 30