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SUBMITTER: Kumar K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3039483 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kumar Kunal K Awasthi Divya D Berger William T WT Tonge Peter J PJ Slayden Richard A RA Ojima Iwao I
Future medicinal chemistry 20100801 8
The emergence of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains has made many of the currently available anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs ineffective. Accordingly, there is a pressing need to identify new drug targets. Filamentous temperature-sensitive protein Z (FtsZ), a bacterial tubulin homologue, is an essential cell-division protein that polymerizes in a GTP-dependent manner, forming a highly dynamic cytokinetic ring, designated as the Z ring, at the septum site. Other cell-division pro ...[more]