The coiled-coil domain of Escherichia coli FtsLB is a structurally detuned element critical for modulating its activation in bacterial cell division

Treadmilling FtsZ polymers drive the directional movement of sPG-synthesis enzymes via a Brownian ratchet mechanism

(2021) Joshua W. McCausland et al.   Nature Communications

A two-track model for the spatiotemporal coordination of bacterial septal cell wall synthesis revealed by single-molecule imaging of FtsW

(2021) Xinxing Yang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Genetic analysis of the septal peptidoglycan synthase FtsWI complex supports a conserved activation mechanism for SEDS-bPBP complexes

(2021) Ying Li et al.   PLoS Genetics

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

(2021) John Jumper et al.   NATURE

FtsA acts through FtsW to promote cell wall synthesis during cell division in Escherichia coli

(2021) Kyung-Tae Park et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis and remodelling

(2020) Alexander J. F. Egan et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A conserved subcomplex within the bacterial cytokinetic ring activates cell wall synthesis by the FtsW-FtsI synthase

(2020) Lindsey S. Marmont et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Essential Role for FtsL in Activation of Septal Peptidoglycan Synthesis

(2020) Kyung-Tae Park et al.   mBio

FtsW is a peptidoglycan polymerase that is functional only in complex with its cognate penicillin-binding protein

(2019) Atsushi Taguchi et al.   Nature Microbiology

Structural basis for the coordination of cell division with the synthesis of the bacterial cell envelope

(2019) Simon Booth et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Transmembrane Prolines Mediate Signal Sensing and Decoding in Bacillus subtilis DesK Histidine Kinase

(2019) Pilar Fernández et al.   mBio

Structure and Function of the Transmembrane Domain of NsaS, an Antibiotic Sensing Histidine Kinase in Staphylococcus aureus

(2018) Manasi P. Bhate et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structural Analysis of the Interaction between the Bacterial Cell Division Proteins FtsQ and FtsB

(2018) Danguole Kureisaite-Ciziene et al.   mBio

Structural Insights into the FtsQ/FtsB/FtsL Complex, a Key Component of the Divisome

(2018) Yuri Choi et al.   Scientific Reports

The FtsLB subcomplex of the bacterial divisome is a tetramer with an uninterrupted FtsL helix linking the transmembrane and periplasmic regions

(2017) Samson G. F. Condon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Assembly and activation of the Escherichia coli divisome

(2017) Shishen Du et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

MMseqs2 enables sensitive protein sequence searching for the analysis of massive data sets

(2017) Martin Steinegger et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The accommodation index measures the perturbation associated with insertions and deletions in coiled-coils: Application to understand signaling in histidine kinases

(2017) Nathan W. Schmidt et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Interplay between Penicillin-binding proteins and SEDS proteins promotes bacterial cell wall synthesis

(2017) Sophie Leclercq et al.   Scientific Reports

SEDS proteins are a widespread family of bacterial cell wall polymerases

(2016) Alexander J. Meeske et al.   NATURE

CHARMM36m: an improved force field for folded and intrinsically disordered proteins

(2016) Jing Huang et al.   NATURE METHODS

Balance between Coiled-Coil Stability and Dynamics Regulates Activity of BvgS Sensor Kinase in Bordetella

(2016) E. Lesne et al.   mBio

Bacterial cell wall biogenesis is mediated by SEDS and PBP polymerase families functioning semi-autonomously

(2016) Hongbaek Cho et al.   Nature Microbiology

The Soluble Periplasmic Domains ofEscherichia coliCell Division Proteins FtsQ/FtsB/FtsL Form a Trimeric Complex with Submicromolar Affinity

(2015) Marjolein Glas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A role for the FtsQLB complex in cytokinetic ring activation revealed by anftsLallele that accelerates division

(2015) Mary-Jane Tsang et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Oufti: an integrated software package for high-accuracy, high-throughput quantitative microscopy analysis

(2015) Ahmad Paintdakhi et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The bypass of ZipA by overexpression of FtsN requires a previously unknown conserved FtsN motif essential for FtsA-FtsN interaction supporting a model in which FtsA monomers recruit late cell division proteins to the Z ring

(2015) Sebastien Pichoff et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Roles for both FtsA and the FtsBLQ subcomplex in FtsN-stimulated cell constriction inEscherichia coli

(2015) Bing Liu et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

(2015) Nuala A. O'Leary et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Specificity of the Transport of Lipid II by FtsW inEscherichia coli

(2014) Tamimount Mohammadi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structural Organization of FtsB, a Transmembrane Protein of the Bacterial Divisome

(2013) Loren M. LaPointe et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

The Transmembrane Domains of the Bacterial Cell Division Proteins FtsB and FtsL Form a Stable High-Order Oligomer

(2013) Ambalika S. Khadria et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The physiology of bacterial cell division

(2012) Alexander J. F. Egan et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Domain enhanced lookup time accelerated BLAST

(2012) Grzegorz M Boratyn et al.   Biology Direct

Identification of FtsW as a transporter of lipid-linked cell wall precursors across the membrane

(2011) Tamimount Mohammadi et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

The NCBI Taxonomy database

(2011) S. Federhen   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A model for the Escherichia coli FtsB/FtsL/FtsQ cell division complex

(2011) Felipe Villanelo et al.   BMC STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Multiple Interaction Domains in FtsL, a Protein Component of the Widely Conserved Bacterial FtsLBQ Cell Division Complex

(2010) M. D. Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Probing Designability via a Generalized Model of Helical Bundle Geometry

(2010) Gevorg Grigoryan et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Update of the CHARMM All-Atom Additive Force Field for Lipids: Validation on Six Lipid Types

(2010) Jeffery B. Klauda et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

The integral membrane FtsW protein and peptidoglycan synthase PBP3 form a subcomplex in Escherichia coli

(2010) C. Fraipont et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Self-Enhanced Accumulation of FtsN at Division Sites and Roles for Other Proteins with a SPOR Domain (DamX, DedD, and RlpA) in Escherichia coli Cell Constriction

(2009) M. A. Gerding et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Divisome under Construction: Distinct Domains of the Small Membrane Protein FtsB Are Necessary for Interaction with Multiple Cell Division Proteins

(2009) M. D. Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Central Domain of DivIB Caps the C-terminal Regions of the FtsL/DivIC Coiled-coil Rod

(2009) Soizic Masson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structural plasticity and catalysis regulation of a thermosensor histidine kinase

(2009) D. Albanesi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of position a in determining the stability and oligomerization state of α-helical coiled coils: 20 amino acid stability coefficients in the hydrophobic core of proteins

(2009) Kurt Wagschal et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

CHARMM-GUI: A web-based graphical user interface for CHARMM

(2008) Sunhwan Jo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

CC+: a relational database of coiled-coil structures

(2008) O. D. Testa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH