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The straight conformation was seen in single protofilaments assembled from purified FtsZ with GTP or the slowly hydrolyzable analog GMPCPP, and in protofilament sheets assembled with DEAE dextran.
We believe that these sheets and pairs with the 3.7 - 3.9 nm protofilament spacing may assemble by contacts of the lateral surfaces that we mutated, and may be representative of an essential polymer in vivo.
D86K could also form protofilament sheets when assembled in DEAE dextran, as could all of the other lateral mutants (Table 1).
This short strand of polypeptide, which we call the "synergy" loop, apparently contacts the GTP molecule of the subunit beneath it in the protofilament and contributes essential residues to the hydrolysis mechanism.
The FtsZ protein is homologous to tubulin, and the orientation of FtsZ subunits in the protofilament can be deduced by comparing the atomic structures of tubulin and FtsZ [ 8, 9, 10].