In vitro reconstitution of Escherichia coli divisome activation

In E. coli, FtsA and FtsZ control the place and time of cell division. Here, the authors use in vitro experiments to show how FtsA can follow FtsZ treadmilling and that downstream proteins form dynamic copolymers with FtsA to initiate division.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Philipp Radler, Natalia Baranova, Paulo Caldas, Christoph Sommer, Mar López-Pelegrín, David Michalik, Martin Loose
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30301-y
Description
Summary:In E. coli, FtsA and FtsZ control the place and time of cell division. Here, the authors use in vitro experiments to show how FtsA can follow FtsZ treadmilling and that downstream proteins form dynamic copolymers with FtsA to initiate division.
ISSN:2041-1723