Construction and Characterization of Functional FtsA Sandwich Fusions for Studies of FtsA Localization and Dynamics during Escherichia coli Cell Division

Bacterial divisome protein FtsA forms curved antiparallel double filaments when binding to FtsN

(2022) Tim Nierhaus et al.   Nature Microbiology

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

Transient Membrane-Linked FtsZ Assemblies Precede Z-Ring Formation in Escherichia coli

(2020) Bryant E. Walker et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bacterial Division: Journey to the Center of the Cell

(2020) William Margolin   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Diffusion and capture permits dynamic coupling between treadmilling FtsZ filaments and cell division proteins

(2020) Natalia Baranova et al.   Nature Microbiology

Essential Role for FtsL in Activation of Septal Peptidoglycan Synthesis

(2020) Kyung-Tae Park et al.   mBio

How Fts EX localizes to the Z ring and interacts with FtsA to regulate cell division

(2019) Shishen Du et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Gain-of-function variants of FtsA form diverse oligomeric structures on lipids and enhance FtsZ protofilament bundling

(2018) Kara M. Schoenemann et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Disruption of divisome assembly rescued by FtsN–FtsA interaction inEscherichia coli

(2018) Sebastien Pichoff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MreB filaments align along greatest principal membrane curvature to orient cell wall synthesis

(2018) Saman Hussain et al.   eLife

Direct interaction between the two Z ring membrane anchors FtsA and ZipA

(2018) Daniel E. Vega et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis

(2017) Xinxing Yang et al.   SCIENCE

Treadmilling by FtsZ filaments drives peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial cell division

(2017) Alexandre W. Bisson-Filho et al.   SCIENCE

Escherichia coli FtsA forms lipid-bound minirings that antagonize lateral interactions between FtsZ protofilaments

(2017) Marcin Krupka et al.   Nature Communications

Probing for Binding Regions of the FtsZ Protein Surface through Site-Directed Insertions: Discovery of Fully Functional FtsZ-Fluorescent Proteins

(2016) Desmond A. Moore et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Coordinated disassembly of the divisome complex inEscherichia coli

(2016) Bill Söderström et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

FtsEX acts on FtsA to regulate divisome assembly and activity

(2016) Shishen Du et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MicrobeJ, a tool for high throughput bacterial cell detection and quantitative analysis

(2016) Adrien Ducret et al.   Nature Microbiology

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

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

3D-SIM Super-resolution of FtsZ and Its Membrane Tethers in Escherichia coli Cells

(2014) Veronica Wells Rowlett et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Quantifying Absolute Protein Synthesis Rates Reveals Principles Underlying Allocation of Cellular Resources

(2014) Gene-Wei Li et al.   CELL

Bacterial actin MreB forms antiparallel double filaments

(2014) Fusinita van den Ent et al.   eLife

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

FtsA mutants impaired for self-interaction bypass ZipA suggesting a model in which FtsA's self-interaction competes with its ability to recruit downstream division proteins

(2011) Sebastien Pichoff et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

RodZ (YfgA) is required for proper assembly of the MreB actin cytoskeleton and cell shape in E. coli

(2008) Felipe O Bendezú et al.   EMBO JOURNAL