CetZ tubulin-like proteins control archaeal cell shape

Iain G. Duggin (), Christopher H. S. Aylett, James C. Walsh, Katharine A. Michie, Qing Wang, Lynne Turnbull, Emma M. Dawson, Elizabeth J. Harry, Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Linda A. Amos and Jan Löwe
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Iain G. Duggin: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
Christopher H. S. Aylett: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
James C. Walsh: The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney
Katharine A. Michie: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
Qing Wang: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
Lynne Turnbull: The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney
Emma M. Dawson: The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney
Elizabeth J. Harry: The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney
Cynthia B. Whitchurch: The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney
Linda A. Amos: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
Jan Löwe: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK

Nature, 2015, vol. 519, issue 7543, 362-365

Abstract: The structure and function of CetZ, a protein related to both tubulin and FtsZ (the bacterial homologue of tubulin) from the archaeon Haloferax volcanii, is reported and its involvement in the control of cell shape uncovered; it appears that this family of proteins was involved in the control of cell shape long before the evolution of eukaryotes.

Date: 2015
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