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We have tested 16 site-directed mutants of E. coli FtsZ for assembly and GTPase activity in vitro, and for whether they can function in vivo to complement ftsZ84 . Mutations on the front and back of the FtsZ protofilament were mostly benign: they had normal in vitro assembly, and could complement ftsZ84 . Several of these, however, had significantly reduced in vitro GTPase, demonstrating that the high level of GTPase is not essential for assembly or function in vivo.
We observed a second form of protofilament sheet when assembled on cationic lipid monolayers, in which the protofilaments were only 3.7 nm apart [ 2].
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.
Since the FtsZ protofilament appears to be a homolog of the tubulin protofilament [ 2, 11] we will use these same designations for FtsZ.
We have not yet examined FtsZ84 for assembly of protofilaments in GTP and protofilament sheets in calcium.