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Biomedical Research, The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, 11937 US Hwy @ 271, Tyler, TX-75708-3154, USA1
Author for correspondence: Malini Rajagopalan. Tel: +1 903 877 7731. Fax: +1 903 877 5969. e-mail: malini.rajagopalan{at}uthct.edu
The ftsZ gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv has been characterized as the first step in determining the molecular events involved in the cell division process in mycobacteria. Western analysis revealed that intracellular levels of FtsZ are growth phase dependent in both M. tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis. Unregulated expression of M. tuberculosis ftsZ from constitutive hsp60 and dnaA promoters in M. tuberculosis hosts resulted in lethality whereas expression from only the hsp60 promoter was toxic in M. smegmatis hosts. Expression of ftsZ from the dnaA promoter in M. smegmatis resulted in 
sixfold overproduction and the merodiploids exhibited slow growth, an increased tendency to clump and filament, and in some cases produced buds and branches. Many of the cells also contained abnormal and multiple septa. Expression of ftsZ from the chemically inducible acetamidase promoter in M. smegmatis hosts resulted in 22-fold overproduction of FtsZ and produced filamentous cells, many of which lacked any visible septa. Visualization of the M. tuberculosis FtsZ tagged with green fluorescent protein in M. smegmatis by fluorescence microscopy revealed multiple fluorescent FtsZ foci, suggesting that steps subsequent to the formation of organized FtsZ structures but prior to septum formation are blocked in FtsZ-overproducing cells. Together these results suggest that the intracellular concentration of FtsZ protein is critical for productive septum formation in mycobacteria.
Keywords: Cell division, filamentation, Mycobacterium smegmatis, FtsZ–GFP, Z ring
Abbreviations: GFP, green fluorescent protein
a These authors contributed equally to this work.
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