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Site ftsQ
- Name: ftsQ
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b0093 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: filamentation temperature sensitivity
- Left End Point: 2.22
- Right End Point: 2.24
- Products:
Septal protein - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
ftsQ1(ts) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank K02668 NCBI/GenBank M10429 EcoGene.org EG10342 EcoliWiki ftsQ - Comment:
- cell division. involved in septum formation and septosomal complex. Like FtsI and L, has sm.N-term.cytopl.domain, memb.span.domain, and lge.periplasmic domain. low copy no.
- References:
- Begg, K.J., G.F. Hatfull, W.D. Donachie 1980. Identification of new genes in a cell envelope-cell division gene cluster of Escherichia coli: cell division gene ftsQ. J.Bacteriol. 144:435-437
- Robinson, A., D.J. Kenan, G.F. Hatfull, N.F. Sullivan, R. Spiegelberg, W.D. Donachie 1984. DNA sequence and transcriptional organization of essential cell division genes ftsQ and ftsA of Escherichia coli: evidence for overlapping transcriptional units
- Begg, K.J., W.D. Donachie 1985. Cell shape and division in Escherichia coli: experiments with shape and division mutants. J.Bacteriol. 163:615-622
- Yi, Q.-M., S. Rockenbach, J.E. Ward, J. Lutkenhaus 1985. Structure and expression of the cell-division genes ftsQ, ftsA and ftsZ. J.Mol.Biol. 184:399-412
- Robinson, A., D.J. Kenan, J. Sweeney, W.D. Donachie 1986. Further evidence for overlapping transcriptional units in an Escherichia coli cell envelope-cell division gene cluster: DNA sequence and transcriptional organization of the ddl ftsQ region. J.B
- Descoteaux, A., G.R. Drapeau 1987. Regulation of cell division in Escherichia coli K-12: probable interactions among proteins FtsQ, FtsA, and FtsZ. J.Bacteriol. 169:1938-1942
- Jung, H.K., F. Ishino, M. Matsuhashi 1989. Inhibition of growth of ftsQ, ftsA, and ftsZ mutant cells of Escherichia coli by amplification of a chromosomal region encompassing closely aligned cell division and cell growth genes. J.Bacteriol. 171:6379-63
- Masters, M., T. Paterson, A.G. Popplewell, T. Owen-Hughes, J.H. Pringle, K.J. Begg 1989. The effect of DnaA protein levels and the rate of initiation at oriC on transcription originating in the ftsQ and ftsA genes: in vivo experiments. Mol.Gen.Genet. 2
- Aldea, M., T. Garrido, J. Pla, M. Vicente 1990. Division genes in Escherichia coli are expressed coordinately to cell septum requirements by gearbox promoters. EMBO J. 9:3787-3794
- Storts, D.R.X., A. Markovitz 1991. A novel rho promoter::Tn10 mutation suppresses an ftsQ1(Ts) missense mutation in an essential Escherichia coli cell division gene by a mechanism not involving polarity suppression. J.Bacteriol. 173:655-663
- Barondess, J.J., M. Carson, L. Guzman, J.R. Beckwith 1991. Alkaline phosphatase fusions in the study of cell division genes. Res.Microbiol. 142:295-299
- Hale, C.A., P.A. de Boer 2002. ZipA is required for recruitment of FtsK, FtsQ, FtsL, and FtsN to the septal ring in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 184:2552-2556