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SUBMITTER: Hoshino S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3509986 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hoshino Shota S Maki Takahisa T Hayashi Ikuko I
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications 20121119 Pt 12
TubZ is a structural homologue of tubulin and FtsZ GTPases, which are involved in the type III plasmid-partitioning system. TubZ assembles into polymers in a GTP-dependent manner and drives plasmid segregation as `cytomotive' filaments. In this study, C-terminally truncated TubZ from Bacillus cereus was crystallized in the presence or absence of GDP by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. The crystal of TubZ in complex with GDP belonged to the monoclinic space group P2(1), with unit-cell pa ...[more]