Assembly Dynamics of the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ: Poised at the Edge of Stability
- 1 October 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Microbiology
- Vol. 57  (1) , 125-154
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.micro.57.012903.074300
Abstract
âȘ Abstract FtsZ is a prokaryotic tubulin homolog that assembles into a ring at the future site of cell division. The resulting âZ ringâ forms the framework for the division apparatus, and its assem...Keywords
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