Extreme C terminus of bacterial cytoskeletal protein FtsZ plays fundamental role in assembly independent of modulatory proteins

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 10945-10957

  Buske, Paul J ^a   Levin, Petra Anne ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL DIVISION; BACTERIAL CYTOSKELETAL PROTEIN FTSZ; C TERMINUS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; E. COLI; FILAMENTATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HIGHER-ORDER STRUCTURE; IN-VITRO; LATERAL INTERACTIONS; LOW FREQUENCY; MOLECULAR CROWDING; RING FORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SUBTILIS; WILD-TYPE CELLS;

CELL PROLIFERATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POLYMERS;

PROTEINS;

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE DELETION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84859484529     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.330324     Document Type: Article

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