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Developmentally regulated association of plastid division protein FtsZ1 with thylakoid membranes in Arabidopsis thaliana.
The Biochemical journal - 1 Jan 2008
El-Kafafi El-Sayed, Karamoko Mohamed, Pignot-Paintrand Isabelle, Grunwald Didier, Mandaron Paul, Lerbs-Mache Silva, Falconet Denis
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FtsZ is a key protein involved in bacterial and organellar division. Bacteria have only one ftsZ gene, while chlorophytes (higher plants and green alga) have two distinct FtsZ gene families, named FtsZ1 and FtsZ2. This raises the question of why chloroplasts in these organisms need distinct FtsZ...
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