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Both mutants assembled bundles of straight protofilaments in 20 mM calcium.
The protofilaments in both sheets and tubes assembled in DEAE dextran are spaced 5.3-5.
The top and bottom faces of the subunit, which we call longitudinal, contact subunits above and below it in the protofilament; the right and left faces, which we call lateral, contact subunits in adjacent protofilaments; and the front and back faces correspond to the outside and inside of the microtubule.
Our initial goal in making the lateral mutants was to target amino acids making lateral contacts between protofilaments.
Löwe and Amos [ 11] showed pairs of Methanococcus FtsZ protofilaments with a ∼ 3.9 nm spacing.