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SUBMITTER: Camberg JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2705540 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Camberg Jodi L JL Hoskins Joel R JR Wickner Sue S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090617 26
FtsZ is the major cytoskeletal protein in bacteria and a tubulin homologue. It polymerizes and forms a ring where constriction occurs to divide the cell. We found that FtsZ is degraded by E. coli ClpXP, an ATP-dependent protease. In vitro, ClpXP degrades both FtsZ protomers and polymers; however, polymerized FtsZ is degraded more rapidly than the monomer. Deletion analysis shows that the N-terminal domain of ClpX is important for polymer recognition and that the FtsZ C terminus contains a ClpX r ...[more]