title: Bacterial cell division: a swirling ring to rule them all?
abstract: FtsZ, a tubulin homologue and the major constituent of the bacterial Z ring, has been shown to assemble into curved filament bundles, which exhibit GTP-hydrolysis-dependent turnover. Surprisingly, the presence of its membrane adaptor FtsA renders this turnover directional, inducing treadmilling and collective circular motion of filaments in vitro.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. Electronic address: schwille@biochem.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schwille
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002455:Cell Division; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism*; D048168:Escherichia coli K12 / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins