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SUBMITTER: Erickson HP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC40269 | biostudies-other | 1996 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Erickson H P HP Taylor D W DW Taylor K A KA Bramhill D D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19960101 1
The bacterial cell division protein FtsZ is a homolog of tubulin, but it has not been determined whether FtsZ polymers are structurally related to the microtubule lattice. In the present study, we have obtained high-resolution electron micrographs of two FtsZ polymers that show remarkable similarity to tubulin polymers. The first is a two-dimensional sheet of protofilaments with a lattice very similar to that of the microtubule wall. The second is a miniring, consisting of a single protofilament ...[more]