Article
Division site placement in E.coli: mutations that prevent formation of the MinE ring lead to loss of the normal midcell arrest of growth of polar MinD membrane domains.
The EMBO journal - 1 Jul 2002
Shih Yu-Ling, Fu Xiaoli, King Glenn F, Le Trung, Rothfield Lawrence
Abstract excerpt
The MinE protein functions as a topological specificity factor in determining the site of septal placement in Escherichia coli. MinE assembles into a membrane-associated ring structure near midcell and directs the localization of MinD and MinC into a membrane- associated polar zone that undergoes a characteristic pole-to-pole oscillation cycle. Single (green fluorescent protein) and double label (yellow...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cell Cycle Proteins
- Cell Membrane
- Cell Polarity
- Dimerization
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Genes, Reporter