Role of the SulB (FtsZ) protein in division inhibition during the SOS response in Escherichia coli: FtsZ stabilizes the inhibitor SulA in maxicells.
AUTOR(ES)
Jones, C
RESUMO
Induction of the SOS response in Escherichia coli by DNA-damaging treatments results in the synthesis of the SulA polypeptide, and this is sufficient to cause the resulting inhibition of cell division. Mutations at either sulA (sfiA) or sulB (sfiB) suppress this division inhibition. The SulB protein is identical to FtsZ, a protein required for normal division in E. coli. In the presence of FtsZ, the half-life of SulA synthesized in maxicells is approximately 12 min. In contrast, in the absence of FtsZ or in the presence of a mutant form of FtsZ (SulB114) that prevents division inhibition in vivo, SulA is extremely unstable with a half-life of only 3 min. Both FtsZ and SulA are isolated with the inner membrane of E. coli maxicells in the presence of MgCl2. We propose that the SulA inhibitor interacts directly with FtsZ in vivo to block the essential division function of this protein.
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