Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ requires at least one arginine residue at the C-terminal end for polymerization in vitro

Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-69

  Gupta, Prabuddha ^a,b   Rajeswari, Haryadi ^a   Arumugam, Muthu ^a   Mishra, Saurabh ^a   Bhagavat, Raghu ^a   Anand, Praveen ^a   Chandra, Nagasuma ^a   Srinivasan, Ramanujam ^a,c   Indi, Shantinath ^a   Ajitkumar, Parthasarathi ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cell division; FtsZ; GTPase; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Polymerization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; C TERMINAL BINDING PROTEIN; C-TERMINAL BINDING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 73549123864     PISSN: 16729145     EISSN: 17457270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/abbs/gmp105     Document Type: Article

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