کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2401823 1102374 2009 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Overproduction and localization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ParA and ParB proteins
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری ایمنی شناسی و میکروب شناسی میکروبیولوژی و بیوتکنولوژی کاربردی
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Overproduction and localization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ParA and ParB proteins
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryThe ParA and ParB family proteins are required for accurate partitioning of replicated chromosomes. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome contains parB, parA and two parA homologs, Rv1708 and Rv3213c. It is unknown if parA and its homologs are functionally related. To understand the roles of ParA and ParB proteins in M. tuberculosis cell cycle, we have evaluated the consequences of their overproduction and visualized their localization patterns in M. smegmatis. We show that cells overproducing ParA, Rv1708 and Rv3213c and ParB are filamentous and multinucleoidal indicating defects in cell-cycle progression. Visualization of green-fluorescent protein fusions of ParA and its homologues showed similar localization patterns with foci at poles, quarter-cell, midcell positions and spiral-like structures indicating that they are functionally related. On the other hand, the ParB– GFP fusion protein localized only to the cell poles. The cyan- and yellow-fluorescent fusion proteins of ParA and ParB, respectively, colocalized at the cell poles indicating that these proteins interact and possibly associate with the chromosomal origin of replication. Collectively our results suggest that the M. tuberculosis Par proteins play important roles in cell-cycle progression.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Tuberculosis - Volume 89, Supplement 1, December 2009, Pages S65–S69
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