Bacterial Tubulin Distinct Loop Sequences and Primitive Assembly Properties Support Its Origin from a Eukaryotic Tubulin Ancestor

Tubulin depolymerization may be an ancient biological motor

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Microtubule nucleating γ-TuSC assembles structures with 13-fold microtubule-like symmetry

(2010) Justin M. Kollman et al.   NATURE

Ongoing and future developments at the Universal Protein Resource

(2010)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Plasmid protein TubR uses a distinct mode of HTH-DNA binding and recruits the prokaryotic tubulin homolog TubZ to effect DNA partition

(2010) L. Ni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Filament structure of bacterial tubulin homologue TubZ

(2010) C. H. S. Aylett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intermediate Steps

(2010) D. P. Devos et al.   SCIENCE

The Pfam protein families database

(2009) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

BtubA-BtubB Heterodimer Is an Essential Intermediate in Protofilament Assembly

(2009) Christopher A. Sontag et al.   PLoS One

Macromolecular Crowding and Confinement: Biochemical, Biophysical, and Potential Physiological Consequences

(2008) Huan-Xiang Zhou et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Evolution of cytomotive filaments: The cytoskeleton from prokaryotes to eukaryotes

(2008) Jan Löwe et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Prosthecobacter fluviatilis sp. nov., which lacks the bacterial tubulin btubA and btubB genes

(2008) M. Takeda et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

An Inhibitor of FtsZ with Potent and Selective Anti-Staphylococcal Activity

(2008) D. J. Haydon et al.   SCIENCE

Energetics and Geometry of FtsZ Polymers: Nucleated Self-Assembly of Single Protofilaments

(2007) Sonia Huecas et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL