Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

The cell cycle regulator GpsB functions as cytosolic adaptor for multiple cell wall enzymes

  • Robert M. Cleverley,
  • Zoe J. Rutter,
  • Jeanine Rismondo,
  • Federico Corona,
  • Ho-Ching Tiffany Tsui,
  • Fuad A. Alatawi,
  • Richard A. Daniel,
  • Sven Halbedel,
  • Orietta Massidda,
  • Malcolm E. Winkler,
  • Richard J. Lewis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08056-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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GpsB is a cytosolic protein that modulates bacterial cell wall synthesis by interacting with cytoplasmic domains of peptidoglycan synthases. Here, Cleverley et al. describe structural features that are important for these interactions, and identify new interacting partners of GpsB in three bacterial species.