Laura Romberg

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Polymerization of Ftsz, a bacterial homolog of tubulin. is assembly cooperative?
    L Romberg
    Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 276:11743-53. 2001
  2. ncbi Assembly dynamics of the bacterial cell division protein FTSZ: poised at the edge of stability
    Laura Romberg
    Institute for Cellular and Chemical Biology, Harvard Medical School, SGM 604, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Annu Rev Microbiol 57:125-54. 2003
  3. ncbi Targeting cell division: small-molecule inhibitors of FtsZ GTPase perturb cytokinetic ring assembly and induce bacterial lethality
    Danielle N Margalit
    Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:11821-6. 2004
  4. ncbi Rate-limiting guanosine 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis during nucleotide turnover by FtsZ, a prokaryotic tubulin homologue involved in bacterial cell division
    Laura Romberg
    Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Biochemistry 43:282-8. 2004

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Publications4

  1. ncbi Polymerization of Ftsz, a bacterial homolog of tubulin. is assembly cooperative?
    L Romberg
    Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    J Biol Chem 276:11743-53. 2001
    ..It predicts that unlike microtubules, FtsZ protofilaments consist of GTP-bound FtsZ subunits that hydrolyze their nucleotide only slowly and are connected by high affinity longitudinal bonds with a nanomolar K(D)...
  2. ncbi Assembly dynamics of the bacterial cell division protein FTSZ: poised at the edge of stability
    Laura Romberg
    Institute for Cellular and Chemical Biology, Harvard Medical School, SGM 604, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Annu Rev Microbiol 57:125-54. 2003
    ..Thus, regulatory proteins that modulate FtsZ's assembly dynamics can cause the ring to rapidly remodel in response to developmental and environmental cues...
  3. ncbi Targeting cell division: small-molecule inhibitors of FtsZ GTPase perturb cytokinetic ring assembly and induce bacterial lethality
    Danielle N Margalit
    Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:11821-6. 2004
    ..Our results illustrate the utility of small-molecule chemical probes to study FtsZ polymerization dynamics and the feasibility of FtsZ as a novel therapeutic target...
  4. ncbi Rate-limiting guanosine 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis during nucleotide turnover by FtsZ, a prokaryotic tubulin homologue involved in bacterial cell division
    Laura Romberg
    Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Biochemistry 43:282-8. 2004
    ..These results clarify previously conflicting results in the literature and suggest that pure FtsZ polymers, unlike microtubules, may not be able to undergo dynamic instability or to store energy in the polymer for force production...