Structural and genetic analyses reveal the protein SepF as a new membrane anchor for the Z ring

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 48, 2013, Pages

  Duman, Ramona ^a   Ishikawa, Shu ^b   Celik, Ilkay ^c   Strahl, Henrik ^c   Ogasawara, Naotake ^b   Troc, Paulina ^a   Löwe, Jan ^a   Hamoen, Leendert W ^c,d  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SEPF PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID MEMBRANE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE BINDING; MICROSCOPY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; YEASTS;

EID: 84888379584     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313978110     Document Type: Article

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