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SUBMITTER: Martin A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2782794 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martin Anja A Lang Daniel D Hanke Sebastian T ST Mueller Stefanie J X SJ Sarnighausen Eric E Vervliet-Scheebaum Marco M Reski Ralf R
Molecular plant 20090910 6
Chloroplasts and bacterial cells divide by binary fission. The key protein in this constriction division is FtsZ, a self-assembling GTPase similar to eukaryotic tubulin. In prokaryotes, FtsZ is almost always encoded by a single gene, whereas plants harbor several nuclear-encoded FtsZ homologs. In seed plants, these proteins group in two families and all are exclusively imported into plastids. In contrast, the basal land plant Physcomitrella patens, a moss, encodes a third FtsZ family with one me ...[more]