Crystal structure of the bacterial cell division regulator MinD

被引:69
作者
Cordell, SC [1 ]
Löwe, J [1 ]
机构
[1] MRC, Mol Biol Lab, Cambridge CB2 2QH, England
关键词
cell division; crystal structure; MinD; MinC; FtsZ;
D O I
10.1016/S0014-5793(01)02216-5
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
In bacterial cell division MinD plays a pivotal role, selecting the mid-cell over other sites. With MinC, MinD forms a non-specific inhibitor of division, that interacts with FtsZ, Specificity is provided by MinD's interaction with MinE at the mid-cell. We have solved the crystal structure of MinD-1 from Archaeoglobus fulgidus to 2.6 Angstrom by multiple anomalous dispersion. MinD is a classic nucleotide binding protein, related to nitrogenase iron proteins, which have a fold of a seven-stranded parallel beta -sheet, surrounded by alpha -helices. Although MinD, unlike the proteins it interacts with and those it is structurally related to, is a monomer, not a dimer, (C) 2001 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
引用
收藏
页码:160 / +
页数:7
相关论文
共 35 条
  • [1] THE CCP4 SUITE - PROGRAMS FOR PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
    BAILEY, S
    [J]. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 1994, 50 : 760 - 763
  • [2] ALSCRIPT - A TOOL TO FORMAT MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS
    BARTON, GJ
    [J]. PROTEIN ENGINEERING, 1993, 6 (01): : 37 - 40
  • [3] Crystallography & NMR system:: A new software suite for macromolecular structure determination
    Brunger, AT
    Adams, PD
    Clore, GM
    DeLano, WL
    Gros, P
    Grosse-Kunstleve, RW
    Jiang, JS
    Kuszewski, J
    Nilges, M
    Pannu, NS
    Read, RJ
    Rice, LM
    Simonson, T
    Warren, GL
    [J]. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 1998, 54 : 905 - 921
  • [4] A DIVISION INHIBITOR AND A TOPOLOGICAL SPECIFICITY FACTOR CODED FOR BY THE MINICELL LOCUS DETERMINE PROPER PLACEMENT OF THE DIVISION SEPTUM IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI
    DEBOER, PAJ
    CROSSLEY, RE
    ROTHFIELD, LI
    [J]. CELL, 1989, 56 (04) : 641 - 649
  • [5] BACTERIAL-CELL DIVISION
    DEBOER, PAJ
    COOK, WR
    ROTHFIELD, LI
    [J]. ANNUAL REVIEW OF GENETICS, 1990, 24 : 249 - 274
  • [6] THE MIND PROTEIN IS A MEMBRANE ATPASE REQUIRED FOR THE CORRECT PLACEMENT OF THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI DIVISION SITE
    DEBOER, PAJ
    CROSSLEY, RE
    HAND, AR
    ROTHFIELD, LI
    [J]. EMBO JOURNAL, 1991, 10 (13) : 4371 - 4380
  • [7] ACCURATE BOND AND ANGLE PARAMETERS FOR X-RAY PROTEIN-STRUCTURE REFINEMENT
    ENGH, RA
    HUBER, R
    [J]. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION A, 1991, 47 : 392 - 400
  • [8] Structure of the conserved GTPase domain of the signal recognition particle
    Freymann, DM
    Keenan, RJ
    Stroud, RM
    Walter, P
    [J]. NATURE, 1997, 385 (6614) : 361 - 364
  • [9] DALI - A NETWORK TOOL FOR PROTEIN-STRUCTURE COMPARISON
    HOLM, L
    SANDER, C
    [J]. TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES, 1995, 20 (11) : 478 - 480
  • [10] The MinC component of the division site selection system in Escherichia coli interacts with FtsZ to prevent polymerization
    Hu, ZL
    Mukherjee, A
    Pichoff, S
    Lutkenhaus, J
    [J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1999, 96 (26) : 14819 - 14824