Organelle division: from coli to chloroplasts.
FtsZ, an ancestral homolog of eukaryotic tubulin, assembles into the cytokinetic Z ring that directs cell division in bacteria. Recent results indicate that FtsZ is also used for division by chloroplasts, though not by mitochondria.
Lutkenhaus
J
J
Department of Microbiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66160, USA. jlutkenh@kumc.edu
D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D002455:Cell Division; D002736:Chloroplasts; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D004926:Escherichia coli; D015388:Organelles
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; C071525:FtsZ protein, Bacteria