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Assembly of archaeal cell division protein FtsZ and a GTPase-inactive mutant into double-stranded filaments.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 29 Aug 2003
Oliva María A, Huecas Sonia, Palacios Juan M, Martín-Benito Jaime, Valpuesta José M, Andreu José M
Abstract excerpt
We have studied the assembly and GTPase of purified FtsZ from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii, a structural homolog of eukaryotic tubulin, employing wild-type FtsZ, FtsZ-His6 (histidine-tagged FtsZ), and the new mutants FtsZ-W319Y and FtsZ-W319Y-His6, with light scattering, nucleotide analyses, electron microscopy, and image processing methods. This has revealed novel properties of FtsZ....
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