ReviewAnnual review of biophysics2020
Insights into the Structure, Function, and Dynamics of the Bacterial Cytokinetic FtsZ-Ring.
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- Non canonical perspectives on AmpR mediated ampC expression in Gram negative bacteria, with particular emphasis on the potential regulatory purview of FtsZ.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Review
- Bacterial L-forms: Key Mechanisms of Drug Resistance, Disease Recurrence, and Immune Evasion.Indian journal of microbiology · 2026Review
- A conserved hub protein required for peptidoglycan remodeling and cell division inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Benzodioxane-benzamides targeting bacterial cell division protein FtsZ potentially disrupt SlmA-mediated nucleoid occlusion and reversible biomolecular condensation.International journal of biological macromolecules · 2025Article
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- Crosslinking by ZapD drives the assembly of short FtsZ filaments into toroidal structures in solution.eLife · 2025Article
- Uropathogenic Escherichia coli proliferate as a coccoid morphotype inside human host cells.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- FtsZ as a novel target for antibiotics development: Promises and challenges.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2025Review
- Stress-mediated growth determinesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- FtsZ-mediated spatial-temporal control over septal cell wall synthesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Transcriptional landscape of the cell cycle in a model thermoacidophilic archaeon reveals similarities to eukaryotes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Enhanced chloroplast FtsZ-ring constriction by the ARC6-ARC3 module inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- SpoIIE drives asymmetric cell division inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A FtsZ cis disassembly element acts in Z-ring assembly during bacterial cell division.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Exploring the structural and dynamical features of bacterial-tubulin FtsZ.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Combining live fluorescence imaging with in situ cryoelectron tomography sheds light on the septation process inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Subcellular systems follow Onsager reciprocity.npj biomedical innovations · 2025Article
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Abstract
The FtsZ protein is a highly conserved bacterial tubulin homolog. In vivo, the functional form of FtsZ is the polymeric, ring-like structure (Z-ring) assembled at the future division site during cell division. While it is clear that the Z-ring plays an essential role in orchestrating cytokinesis, precisely what its functions are and how these functions are achieved remain elusive. In this article, we review what we have learned during the past decade about the Z-ring's structure, function, and dynamics, with a particular focus on insights generated by recent high-resolution imaging and single-molecule analyses. We suggest that the major function of the Z-ring is to govern nascent cell pole morphogenesis by directing the spatiotemporal distribution of septal cell wall remodeling enzymes through the Z-ring's GTP hydrolysis-dependent treadmilling dynamics. In this role, FtsZ functions in cell division as the counterpart of the cell shape-determining actin homolog MreB in cell elongation.
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