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SUBMITTER: Yang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5851775 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20170201 6326
The bacterial tubulin FtsZ is the central component of the cell division machinery, coordinating an ensemble of proteins involved in septal cell wall synthesis to ensure successful constriction. How cells achieve this coordination is unknown. We found that in <i>Escherichia coli</i> cells, FtsZ exhibits dynamic treadmilling predominantly determined by its guanosine triphosphatase activity. The treadmilling dynamics direct the processive movement of the septal cell wall synthesis machinery but do ...[more]