Assembly Dynamics of the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ: Poised at the Edge of Stability

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2003, Pages 125-154

  Romberg, Laura ^a   Levin, Petra Anne ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cytokinesis; Cytoskeleton; Polymerization; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

FTSZ PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL; BINDING SITE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; DNA REPLICATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; RING OPENING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0242693139     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.57.012903.074300     Document Type: Review

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