A role for the ESCRT system in cell division in archaea. Samson, R. Y, Obita, T., Freund, S. M, Williams, R. L, & Bell, S. D Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5908):1710--1713, December, 2008.
A role for the ESCRT system in cell division in archaea [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Archaea are prokaryotic organisms that lack endomembrane structures. However, a number of hyperthermophilic members of the Kingdom Crenarchaea, including members of the Sulfolobus genus, encode homologs of the eukaryotic endosomal sorting system components Vps4 and ESCRT-III (endosomal sorting complex required for transport-III). We found that Sulfolobus ESCRT-III and Vps4 homologs underwent regulation of their expression during the cell cycle. The proteins interacted and we established the structural basis of this interaction. Furthermore, these proteins specifically localized to the mid-cell during cell division. Overexpression of a catalytically inactive mutant Vps4 in Sulfolobus resulted in the accumulation of enlarged cells, indicative of failed cell division. Thus, the archaeal ESCRT system plays a key role in cell division.
@article{samson_role_2008,
	title = {A role for the {ESCRT} system in cell division in archaea},
	volume = {322},
	issn = {1095-9203},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19008417},
	doi = {10.1126/science.1165322},
	abstract = {Archaea are prokaryotic organisms that lack endomembrane structures. However, a number of hyperthermophilic members of the Kingdom Crenarchaea, including members of the Sulfolobus genus, encode homologs of the eukaryotic endosomal sorting system components Vps4 and ESCRT-III (endosomal sorting complex required for transport-III). We found that Sulfolobus ESCRT-III and Vps4 homologs underwent regulation of their expression during the cell cycle. The proteins interacted and we established the structural basis of this interaction. Furthermore, these proteins specifically localized to the mid-cell during cell division. Overexpression of a catalytically inactive mutant Vps4 in Sulfolobus resulted in the accumulation of enlarged cells, indicative of failed cell division. Thus, the archaeal ESCRT system plays a key role in cell division.},
	number = {5908},
	urldate = {2009-05-04TZ},
	journal = {Science (New York, N.Y.)},
	author = {Samson, Rachel Y and Obita, Takayuki and Freund, Stefan M and Williams, Roger L and Bell, Stephen D},
	month = dec,
	year = {2008},
	pmid = {19008417},
	keywords = {Adenosine Triphosphatases, Amino Acid Sequence, Archaeal Proteins, Cell Cycle, Cell Division, Crystallography, X-Ray, Evolution, Molecular Sequence Data, Peptides, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Sequence Alignment, Sulfolobus, Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, Vesicular Transport Proteins},
	pages = {1710--1713}
}

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