The bacterial tubulin FtsZ requires its intrinsically disordered linker to direct robust cell wall construction

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sundararajan, Kousik ^a   Miguel, Amanda ^b   Desmarais, Samantha M ^b   Meier, Elizabeth L ^a   Casey Huang, Kerwyn ^b,c   Goley, Erin D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; FTSZ PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; GERM CELL; MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; MONOSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CELL WALL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CELL WALL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 84934901914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8281     Document Type: Article

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