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SUBMITTER: Pastoret S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC532424 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of bacteriology 20041201 24
Site-directed mutagenesis experiments combined with fluorescence microscopy shed light on the role of Escherichia coli FtsW, a membrane protein belonging to the SEDS family that is involved in peptidoglycan assembly during cell elongation, division, and sporulation. This essential cell division protein has 10 transmembrane segments (TMSs). It is a late recruit to the division site and is required for subsequent recruitment of penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3) catalyzing peptide cross-linking. ...[more]