Bacterial tubulin TubZ-Bt transitions between a two-stranded intermediate and a four-stranded filament upon GTP hydrolysis

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

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3407-3412

  Montabana, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Agard, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cytoskeleton; Plasmid segregation

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN TUBZ; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROLYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL CYTOSKELETON; PLASMID SEGREGATION;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TUBULIN;

EID: 84895791374     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318339111     Document Type: Article

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