Article
A factor that positively regulates cell division by activating transcription of the major cluster of essential cell division genes of Escherichia coli.
The EMBO journal - 1 Nov 1991
Wang X D, de Boer P A, Rothfield L I
Abstract excerpt
Cell division in Escherichia coli requires the products of the ftsQ, ftsA and ftsZ genes. It is not known how the cell regulates the cellular concentrations of these essential elements of the division system. We describe here a factor that activates cell division by specifically increasing transcription from one of the two promoters that lie immediately upstream of the ftsQAZ gene cluster. The trans-acting factor...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Division
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Frameshift Mutation
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genes, Suppressor
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family