Reconstitution of a prokaryotic minus end-tracking system using TubRC centromeric complexes and tubulin-like protein TubZ filaments

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

Volumn 112, Issue 15, 2015, Pages E1845-E1850

  Fink, Gero ^a   Löwe, Jan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; DNA segregation; Tubulin homologue

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; TUBR PROTEIN; TUBULIN; TUBULIN LIKE PROTEIN TUBZ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PROTEIN BINDING;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL TRACKING; CENTROMERE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEGREGATION; DNA TRANSPORT; GENE SEGREGATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID TRANSPORT; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUBULIN LIKE PROTEIN TUBZ FILAMENT; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLASMID; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; PROKARYOTA;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; DNA, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TUBULIN;

EID: 84928113252     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423746112     Document Type: Article

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