Two Dictyostelium Orthologs of the Prokaryotic Cell Division Protein FtsZ Localize to Mitochondria and Are Required for the Maintenance of Normal Mitochondrial Morphology

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1315-1326

  Gilson, Paul R ^a,d   Yu, Xuan Chuan ^c   Hereld, Dale ^c   Barth, Christian ^b   Savage, Amelia ^a   Kiefel, Ben R ^a   Lay, Sui ^b   Fisher, Paul R ^b   Margolin, William ^c   Beech, Peter L ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROTOZOAL DNA; RED DYE CMXROS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL DIVISION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0347694583     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.6.1315-1326.2003     Document Type: Article

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