Bacterial cell division protein
Dynamic assembly, disassembly and bundling of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ and YgfE (ZapA)
... has been proposed to provide the force for constriction, whereby a nucleotide-dependent transition of conformational change from a straight, GTP-bound polymer to a curved, GDP-bound polymer can transmit mechanical work ...
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Positioning the Flagellum at the Center of a Dividing Cell To Combine Bacterial Division with Magnetic Polarity
... the cell body under oxic conditions but pulling it under anoxic conditions ...the division strategy of the monotrichous magne- totactic bacterium ...observed division scenario, we formulated a ...
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Checks and Balances in Bacterial Cell Division
... The study of Boes and coworkers (9) published recently in mBio now provides mechanistic insight in the inhibitory and stimulatory roles of FtsBLQ and FtsN, respec- tively, in the regulation and timing of septal PG ...
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Spatial perturbation with synthetic protein scaffold reveals robustness of asymmetric cell division
... Asymmetric cell division is an important mechanism for creating diversity in a cellular ...asymmetric division to gen- erate both a daughter stem cell for self-renewal and a more ...
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Use of the Cell Division Protein FtsZ as a Means of Differentiating among Bartonella Species
... Bacterial strains and growth conditions. B. bacilliformis KC584 (ATCC 35686) was grown on heart infusion agar plates supplemented with 5% defi- brinated rabbit blood (BBL-Becton Dickinson, Cockeysville, Md.) at ...
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Evidence of a Role for G Protein Signaling Modulator 3 in Cell Division
... Agarose (Invitrogen), 40 mM Tris-acetate, 1 mM EDTA, 0.02 µl/ml ethidium bromide, pH 8.3) for 45-120 minutes at 100-150 V. DNA bands were viewed on gel under UV light, excised, and then purified using a Gel/PCR DNA ...
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ZapE Is a Novel Cell Division Protein Interacting with FtsZ and Modulating the Z Ring Dynamics
... to cell division becomes evident, with cells lacking this protein display- ing a growth defect and elongated phenotype ...the cell division defect, zapE is required for efficient ...
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A model of membrane contraction predicting initiation and completion of bacterial cell division
... Bacterial cell division involves a complex and dynamic sequence of events whereby polymers of the protein FtsZ assemble at the division plane and rearrange to achieve the goal of ...
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Structural Analysis of the Interaction between the Bacterial Cell Division Proteins FtsQ and FtsB
... facilitates bacterial cell ...membrane protein with a globular domain in the periplasm, has been shown to interact with many other divisome ...interactions. Protein deletions and ...
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Coordinating Bacterial Cell Division with Nutrient Availability: a Role for Glycolysis
... possible to increase the frequency of polar Z rings in cells lacking pyruvate kinase by producing higher levels of PDH E1␣. To test this, we placed a second copy of the gene encoding PDH E1 ␣ (pdhA) under ...
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Recombinant vacuolar iron transporter family homologue PfVIT from human malaria causing Plasmodium falciparum is a Fe2+/H+ exchanger
... we report on the heterologous overexpression and purification of PfVIT, a vacuolar iron transporter homologue from the human malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Use of synthetic, codon- optimised DNA enabled ...
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MOLECULAR DOCKING OF PHYTOCHEMICAL AS FTSZ CELL DIVISION PROTEIN INHIBITOR IN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS
... The abrectorin is extracted from the seeds of A. precatorius plant. Its leaves, roots and seeds are used as a medicament in traditional system of Indian medicine for antihelminthic, antidiarrhoeal, antiemetic and ...
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Investigating the roles of turnover and mobility in the actomyosin ring of Schizosaccharomyces pombe
... Of particular importance for this thesis is the fission yeast S. pombe. Like the other organisms listed above, the vast majority of cytokinesis genes present in human cells are also present in S. pombe [25]. However, ...
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G protein γ subunit 7 induces autophagy and inhibits cell division
... induces cell death to inhibit cancer. However, it should be noted that the cell numbers of HeLa cells transfected with GNG7-FLAG plasmid for 48 hours were at least reduced by half compared to vector control ...
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A plant U box protein, PUB4, regulates asymmetric cell division and cell proliferation in the root meristem
... asymmetric division in the ground tissue cells at least partially via ...target protein(s) via the 26S ...and cell cycle components, such as CYCD6, CDKB1 and RBR (Cruz-Ramírez et ...periclinal ...
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Identification of an adaptor for the Drosophila Class IA phosphoinositide 3-kinase and the study of its function in vivo and in vitro
... demonstration that p60 binds to pYXXM motifs makes it possible to identify potential upstream activators by the presence of YXXM motifs that might be phosphorylated upon RTK activation (Section 1.3.4). The best ...
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Palmitoylation And Polarity: Regulation Of Asymmetric Partitioning Of Notch And Wnt Signaling By Reversible Lipid Modification In Dividing Cells
... polarized protein localization of proteins in cells and tissues during development, homeostasis, and ...stabilizes protein targeting to intracellular membrane ...transduction. Protein palmitoylation ...
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Cell Division ppt
... • Chromosomes cluster at opposite poles of cell and begin to decondense. • Nuclear envelope may reform[r] ...
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The Mechanism of Cell Division
... each of the first seven cleavages occurs in a regular sequence and the time required for a complete cleavage cycle is the same in each case although the size of most of the cells has dec[r] ...
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The Mechanism of Cell Division
... If the two contiguous blastomeres of the two-celled stage were able to slide on the surface of the fertilisation membrane without frictional resistance, then the line joining their centr[r] ...
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