Gupta, Prabuddha and Rajeswari, Haryadi and Arumugam, Muthu and Mishra, Saurabh and Bhagavat, Raghu and Anand, Praveen and Chandra, Nagasuma R and Srinivasan, Ramanujam and Indi, Shantinath and Ajitkumar, Parthasarathi (2010) Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ requires at least one arginine residue at the C-terminal end for polymerization in vitro. In: Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, 42 (1). pp. 58-69.
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We examined whether C-terminal residues of soluble recombinant FtsZ of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MtFtsZ) have any role in MtFtsZ polymerization in vitro. MtFtsZ-delta C1, which lacks C-terminal extreme Arg residue (underlined in the C-terminal extreme stretch of 13 residues, DDDDVDVPPFMRR), but retaining the penultimate Arg residue (DDDDVDVPPFMR), polymerizes like full-length MtFtsZ in vitro. However, MtFtsZ-delta C2 that lacks both the Arg residues at the C-terminus (DDDDVDVPPFM), neither polymerizes at pH 6.5 nor forms even single- or double-stranded filaments at pH 7.7 in the presence of 10 mM CaCl2. Neither replacement of the penultimate Arg residue, in the C-terminal Arg deletion mutant DDDDVDVPPFMR, with Lys or His or Ala or Asp (DDDDVDVPPFMK/H/A/D) enabled polymerization. Although MtFtsZ-delta C2 showed secondary and tertiary structural changes, which might have affected polymerization, GTPase activity of MtFtsZ-delta C2 was comparable to that of MtFtsZ. These data suggest that MtFtsZ requires an Arg residue as the extreme C-terminal residue for polymerization in vitro. The polypeptide segment containing C-terminal 67 residues, whose coordinates were absent from MtFtsZ crystal structure, was modeled on tubulin and MtFtsZ dimers. Possibilities for the influence of the C-terminal Arg residues on the stability of the dimer and thereby on MtFtsZ polymerization have been discussed.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
|Additional Information:||Copyright for this article belongs to Oxford University Press.|
|Keywords:||FtsZ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; polymerization; GTPase; cell division|
|Department/Centre:||Division of Information Sciences > BioInformatics Centre
Division of Biological Sciences > Microbiology & Cell Biology
|Date Deposited:||12 Jan 2010 09:14|
|Last Modified:||19 Sep 2010 05:54|
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