Article
Proper placement of the Escherichia coli division site requires two functions that are associated with different domains of the MinE protein.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 May 1995
Zhao C R, de Boer P A, Rothfield L I
Abstract excerpt
The proper placement of the Escherichia coli division septum requires the MinE protein. MinE accomplishes this by imparting topological specificity to a division inhibitor coded by the minC and minD genes. As a result, the division inhibitor prevents septation at potential division sites that exist at the cell poles but permits septation at the normal division site at midcell. In this paper, we define two...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cell Cycle Proteins
- Cell Division
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Models, Biological
- Mutagenesis