Organelle division: Self-assembling GTPases caught in the middle

Authors
Citation
W. Margolin, Organelle division: Self-assembling GTPases caught in the middle, CURR BIOL, 10(9), 2000, pp. R328-R330
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Experimental Biology
Journal title
CURRENT BIOLOGY
ISSN journal
09609822 → ACNP
Volume
10
Issue
9
Year of publication
2000
Pages
R328 - R330
Database
ISI
SICI code
0960-9822(20000504)10:9<R328:ODSGCI>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Recent findings indicate that the dynamin GTPase helps to divide animal and fungal mitochondria, and that the tubulin-like FtsZ GTPase is involved in division of, not only most bacteria, but also chloroplasts and probably mit ochondria of unicellular eukaryotes.