Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$125,161.00

Award Date

9/11/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

FtsZ, a homolog of tubulin, is the major cytoskeletal protein in bacterial cell division. It assembles into protofilaments that are ~30 subunits (120 nm) long. In vivo these protofilaments are further assembled into a Z ring, which encircles the cell at m