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The plastid division protein AtMinD1 is a Ca2+-ATPase stimulated by AtMinE1.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 9 Sept 2005
Aldridge Cassie, Møller Simon Geir
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria and plastids divide symmetrically through binary fission by accurately placing the division site at midpoint, a process initiated by FtsZ polymerization, which forms a Z-ring. In Escherichia coli precise Z-ring placement at midcell depends on controlled oscillatory behavior of MinD and MinE: In the presence of ATP MinD interacts with the FtsZ inhibitor MinC and migrates to the membrane where the...
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