How bacteria grow and divide while retaining a defined shape is a fundamental question in
microbiology, but technological advances are now driving a new understanding of how the …

FtsZ, a bacterial homolog of tubulin, is well established as forming the cytoskeletal
framework for the cytokinetic ring. Recent work has shown that purified FtsZ, in the absence …

Bacterial cytokinesis is commonly initiated by the Z-ring, a cytoskeletal structure that
assembles at the site of division. Its primary component is FtsZ, a tubulin superfamily …

Membrane constriction is a prerequisite for cell division. The most common membrane
constriction system in prokaryotes is based on the tubulin homologue FtsZ, whose filaments …

Ancestral homologues of the major eukaryotic cytoskeletal families, tubulin and actin, play
critical roles in cytokinesis of bacterial cells. FtsZ is the ancestral homologue of tubulin and …

In prokaryotes, FtsZ (the f ilamentous t emperature s ensitive protein Z) is a nearly ubiquitous
GTPase that localizes in a ring at the leading edge of constricting plasma membranes during …

The FtsZ protein, a tubulin-like GTPase, plays a pivotal role in prokaryotic cell division. In
vivo it localizes to the midcell and assembles into a ring-like structure-the Z-ring. The Z-ring …

In recent years it has been shown that bacteria contain a number of cytoskeletal structures.
The bacterial cytoplasmic elements include homologs of the three major types of eukaryotic …

FtsZ, the primary protein of the bacterial Z ring guiding cell division, has been recently
shown to engage in intriguing treadmilling dynamics along the circumference of the division …

Bacterial cells contain a variety of structural filamentous proteins necessary for the spatial
regulation of cell shape, cell division, and chromosome segregation, analogous to the …