PROTEIN FTSZ
Use of the Cell Division Protein FtsZ as a Means of Differentiating among Bartonella Species
... division protein FtsZ were isolated from Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana, the causative agents of cat scratch disease and trench fever, ...the ftsZ open reading frames (ORFs) were cloned ...
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Two Dictyostelium Orthologs of the Prokaryotic Cell Division Protein FtsZ Localize to Mitochondria and Are Required for the Maintenance of Normal Mitochondrial Morphology
... division protein FtsZ (AtFtsZ1-1) in Arabidopsis thaliana that was most similar to the FtsZs of cyanobacteria, the ancestors of ...use FtsZ to divide. FtsZ is the most widespread and important ...
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Dynamic assembly, disassembly and bundling of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ and YgfE (ZapA)
... 6.8.2. FtsZ protofilmants gave a peak around 1 nm diameter, whereas the peak changed significantly to around 2 nm in the presence of wild type YgfE, which revealed that wild type YgfE enhanced the polymerization ...
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The structural assembly switch of cell division protein FtsZ probed with fluorescent allosteric inhibitors
... the FtsZ activa- tion switch we measured the uorescence anisotropy changes of probe 6 during GMPCPP-induced assembly and subsequent disassembly upon nucleotide consumption ...the Protein Data Bank (PDB) ...
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The pH dependence of polymerization and bundling by the essential bacterial cytoskeltal protein FtsZ
... coli FtsZ was produced and purified largely following the method described by Mukherjee and Lutkenhaus ...the FtsZ preparation and the last chromatography step was ...coli FtsZ. To overproduce E. ...
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Biological insights from a simulation model of the critical FtsZ accumulation required for prokaryotic cell division
... Cytokinesis is the final step in cell division, the process whereby the parent cell divides into two daughter cells each containing a complete copy of the genome. Although cytokinesis forms an attractive target for ...
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Three Dimensional Superresolution Imaging of the FtsZ Ring during Cell Division of the Cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus
... and protein interactions in many ...division protein FtsZ, which forms a ring structure at the division site and is important for cytokine- sis of bacteria and ...the FtsZ ring assembly ...
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MOLECULAR DOCKING OF PHYTOCHEMICAL AS FTSZ CELL DIVISION PROTEIN INHIBITOR IN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS
... The introduction of CADD approach to modern drug development sector makes it very fast and reliable due to its less cost and time consuming effort. The ligand-receptor docking and interaction analysis are the great ...
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Evaluation of reference genes for reverse transcription quantitative PCR analyses of fish pathogenic Francisella strains exposed to different growth conditions
... division protein (ftsZ), outer membrane protein (fopA), riboflavin biosynthesis protein (ribC), 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) and DNA helicases (uvrD) were quantified under exponential, ...
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A model of membrane contraction predicting initiation and completion of bacterial cell division
... the protein FtsZ assemble at the division plane and rearrange to achieve the goal of contracting the cell membrane at the site of cell division, thus dividing the parent cell into two daughter ...
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Phosphorylation of FtsZ and FtsA by a DNA Damage-Responsive Ser/Thr Protein Kinase Affects Their Functional Interactions in Deinococcus radiodurans
... attenuate FtsZ function in other bacteria are absent in ...including FtsZ and FtsA (see ...of FtsZ does not change during PIR (30), the involvement of phosphorylation in the regulation of FtsZ ...
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Sequence Variation in the ftsZ Gene ofBartonella henselae Isolates and Clinical Samples
... division protein FtsZ as a means of differentiating Bartonella species was recently described ...The ftsZ gene encodes a protein that plays an important role in bacterial cell ...most ...
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Genetic Classification and Differentiation of Bartonella Species Based on Comparison of Partial ftsZ Gene Sequences
... division protein (FtsZ) has also been used for detection (29) and sub- typing of Bartonella species ...the ftsZ sequence corresponding to the C-terminal region for 4 ...The ftsZ sequence data ...
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Molecular coordination of Staphylococcus aureus cell division
... The bacterial cell wall is essential for viability, but despite its ability to withstand internal turgor must remain dynamic to permit growth and division. Peptidoglycan is the major cell wall structural polymer, whose ...
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Isolation and Propagation of Laboratory Strains and a Novel Flea-Derived Field Strain of Wolbachia in Tick Cell Lines
... At intervals, 200-500 µl samples of whole culture suspension were collected and DNA was extracted using commercial kits (Qiagen, Germantown, MD, USA; Qiagen, Manchester, UK; Macherey-Nagel, Düren, Germany) following the ...
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<p>Indole-core-based novel antibacterial agent targeting FtsZ</p>
... stimulate FtsZ polymerization with GTPase inhibitory ...some FtsZ inhibitors, such as PC190723 and quinoline derivative. 30,36 FtsZ polymerization is found to be regulated by GTPase activity of ...
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ZapE Is a Novel Cell Division Protein Interacting with FtsZ and Modulating the Z Ring Dynamics
... first protein found to localize at the mid- cell during division of prokaryotic cells was FtsZ, a GTPase that is structurally homologous to eukaryotic tubulin ...(1). FtsZ polymer- izes at the ...
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A Prophage-Encoded Small RNA Controls Metabolism and Cell Division in Escherichia coli
... Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems represent another notable example of toxic prophage- encoded functions that are evolutionarily conserved on bacterial chromosomes (63). The toxins of TA systems become active only under ...
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STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION AND DOCKING STUDIES OF IMIDAZO [2,1 B][1,3,4]THIADIAZOLE DERIVATIVES AS FTSZ CELL DIVISION PROTEIN INHIBITORS IN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS
... target FtsZ . The X-ray crystal structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ with bound sulphate ion (PDB code: 2Q1Y) was resolved using X-ray diffraction method with a resolution factor of ...RCSB ...
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Bacterial inner membrane remodelling by force generation of FtsZ fibres
... that FtsZ localizes to the midcell and remains at the leading edge during cytokinesis, and that it is the most abundant and the first part of the cell division appa- ...of FtsZ and the piecemeal assembly of ...
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