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Effects of mutations in Arabidopsis FtsZ1 on plastid division, FtsZ ring formation and positioning, and FtsZ filament morphology in vivo.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Jun 2007
Yoder David W, Kadirjan-Kalbach Deena, Olson Bradley J S C, Miyagishima Shin-Ya, Deblasio Stacy L, Hangarter Roger P, Osteryoung Katherine W
Abstract excerpt
In plants, chloroplast division FtsZ proteins have diverged into two families, FtsZ1 and FtsZ2. FtsZ1 is more divergent from its bacterial counterparts and lacks a C-terminal motif conserved in most other FtsZs. To begin investigating FtsZ1 structure-function relationships, we first identified a T-DNA insertion mutation in the single FtsZ1 gene in Arabidopsis thaliana, AtFtsZ1-1. Homozygotes null for FtsZ1,...
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