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MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
卷 163, 期 1, 页码 21-30出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2006.03.001
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FtsH protease; FtsZ protein; AAA family; bacterial cell division
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The identity of protease(s), which would degrade bacterial. cell division protein FtsZ in vivo, remains unknown. However, we had earlier demonstrated that Escherichia coli metalloprotease FtsH degrades E. coli cell division protein FtsZ in an ATP- and Zn2+-dependent manner in vitro. In this study, we examined FtsH protease-mediated degradation of FtsZ in vitro in detail using seven different deletion mutants of FtsZ as the substrates, which tack different extents of specific regions at the N- or C-terminus. FtsH protease assay in vitro on these mutants revealed that FtsH could degrade all the seven deletion mutants irrespective of the deletions or the extent of deletions at the N- or C-terminus. These observations indicated that neither the N-terminus nor the C-terminus was required for the degradation of FtsZ, Like already known in the case of the FtsH substrate sigma(32) protein. The recombinant clones expressing full-length FtsZ protein and FtsZ deletion mutant proteins would be useful in investigating the possibility of FtsZ as a potential in vivo substrate for FtsH in ftsH-null cells carrying ftsH suppressor function and ectopically expressed FtsH protease. (P 2006 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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