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SUBMITTER: Sundararajan K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4532373 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sundararajan Kousik K Miguel Amanda A Desmarais Samantha M SM Meier Elizabeth L EL Casey Huang Kerwyn K Goley Erin D ED
Nature communications 20150623
The bacterial GTPase FtsZ forms a cytokinetic ring at midcell, recruits the division machinery and orchestrates membrane and peptidoglycan cell wall invagination. However, the mechanism for FtsZ regulation of peptidoglycan metabolism is unknown. The FtsZ GTPase domain is separated from its membrane-anchoring C-terminal conserved (CTC) peptide by a disordered C-terminal linker (CTL). Here we investigate CTL function in Caulobacter crescentus. Strikingly, production of FtsZ lacking the CTL (ΔCTL) ...[more]