Treadmilling of a prokaryotic tubulin-like protein, TubZ, required for plasmid stability in Bacillus thuringiensis

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1340-1352

  Larsen, Rachel A ^a   Cusumano, Christina ^a,b   Fujioka, Akina ^a   Lim Fong, Grace ^a,c   Patterson, Paula ^a   Pogliano, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^c RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; FtsZ; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; PROTEIN TUBZ; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUBULIN;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34249897760     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1546107     Document Type: Article

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