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FtsZ bacterial cytoskeletal polymers on curved surfaces: the importance of lateral interactions.
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- Crosslinking by ZapD drives the assembly of short FtsZ filaments into toroidal structures in solution.eLife · 2025Article
- How Does the Spatial Confinement of FtsZ to a Membrane Surface Affect Its Polymerization Properties and Function?Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- The dynamics of shapes of vesicle membranes with time dependent spontaneous curvature.PloS one · 2020Article
- Surface Orientation and Binding Strength Modulate Shape of FtsZ on Lipid Surfaces.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Article
- Short FtsZ filaments can drive asymmetric cell envelope constriction at the onset of bacterial cytokinesis.The EMBO journal · 2017Article
- Bacterial Filament Systems: Toward Understanding Their Emergent Behavior and Cellular Functions.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2015Review
- Phase-field modelling of the dynamics of Z-ring formation in liposomes: Onset of constriction and coarsening.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2015Article
- Negative-stain electron microscopy of inside-out FtsZ rings reconstituted on artificial membrane tubules show ribbons of protofilaments.Biophysical journal · 2012Article
- Physics of bacterial morphogenesis.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2011Review
- FtsZ in bacterial cytokinesis: cytoskeleton and force generator all in one.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2010Review
- Simple modeling of FtsZ polymers on flat and curved surfaces: correlation with experimental in vitro observations.PMC biophysics · 2009Article
- Modeling the physics of FtsZ assembly and force generation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009Article
- Force generation by a dynamic Z-ring in Escherichia coli cell division.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009Article
- The bacterial cell division protein FtsZ assembles into cytoplasmic rings in fission yeast.Genes & development · 2008Article
- In vitro reconstitution of the initial stages of the bacterial cell division machinery.Journal of biological physics · 2008Article
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Abstract
A recent theoretical article provided a mechanical explanation for the formation of cytoskeletal rings and helices in bacteria assuming that these shapes arise, at least in part, from the interaction of the inherent mechanical properties of the protein polymers and the constraints imposed by the curved cell membrane (Andrews, S., and A. P. Arkin. 2007. Biophys. J. 93:1872-1884). Due to the lack of experimental data regarding the bending rigidity and preferential bond angles of bacterial polymers, the authors explored their model over wide ranges of preferred curvature values. In this letter, we present the shape diagram of the FtsZ bacterial polymer on a curved surface but now including recent experimental data on the in vitro formed FtsZ polymers. The lateral interactions between filaments observed experimentally change qualitatively the shape diagram and indicate that the formation of rings over spirals is more energetically favored than estimated in the above-mentioned article.
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