Two New Families of the FtsZ-tubulin Protein Superfamily Implicated in Membrane Remodeling in Diverse Bacteria and Archaea

Overview

Journal Biol Direct

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Biology

Date 2010 May 13

PMID 20459678

Citations 29

Authors

Kira S Makarova

Eugene V Koonin

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Abstract

Several recent discoveries reveal unexpected versatility of the bacterial and archaeal cytoskeleton systems that are involved in cell division and other processes based on membrane remodeling. Here we apply methods for distant protein sequence similarity detection, phylogenetic approaches, and genome context analysis to described two previously unnoticed families of the FtsZ-tubulin superfamily. One of these families is limited in its spread to Proteobacteria whereas the other is represented in diverse bacteria and archaea, and might be the key component of a novel, multicomponent membrane remodeling system that also includes a Von Willebrand A domain-containing protein, a distinct GTPase and membrane transport proteins of the OmpA family.

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