The C-terminally truncated MtFtsZ-ΔC169 mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ shows GTPase and GTP-induced, GTP-specific polymerization activities in vitro

References

1. Anand, S. P.(2001). Biochemical characterization of bacterial cell division protein FtsZ of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. PhD thesis, Indian Institute of Science.
2. Anand, S. P., Rajeswari, H., Gupta, P., Srinivasan, R., Indi, S. & Ajitkumar, P.(2004). A C-terminal deletion mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ shows fast polymerisation in vitro. Microbiology 150, 1119–1121.[CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
3. Borhani, D. W. & White, E. L.(2004). Polymerization of C-terminally truncated Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ is unlikely to be physiologically relevant. Microbiology 150, 3903–3906.[CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
4. Leung, A. K. W., White, E. L., Ross, L. J., Reynolds, R. C., DeVito, J. A. & Borhani, D. W.(2004). Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ reveals unexpected, G protein-like conformational switches. J Mol Biol 342, 953–970.[CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
5. Miroux, B. & Walker, J. E.(1996). Over-production of proteins in Escherichia coli: mutant hosts that allow synthesis of some membrane proteins and globular proteins at high levels. J Mol Biol 260, 289–298.[CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
6. Mukherjee, A. & Lutkenhaus, J.(1999). Analysis of FtsZ assembly by light scattering and determination of the role of divalent metal cations. J Bacteriol 181, 823–832. [Google Scholar]
7. RayChaudhuri, D. & Park, J. T.(1992).Escherichia coli cell-division gene ftsZ encodes a novel GTP-binding protein. Nature 359, 251–254.[CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
8. Santra, M. K. & Panda, D.(2003). Detection of an intermediate during unfolding of bacterial cell division protein FtsZ. Loss of functional properties precedes the global unfolding of FtsZ. J Biol Chem 278, 21336–21343.[CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
9. White, E. L., Ross, L. J., Reynolds, R. C., Seitz, L. E., Moore, G. D. & Borhani, D. W.(2000). Slow polymerization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ. J Bacteriol 182, 4028–4034.[CrossRef] [Google Scholar]