Grant: DUKE UNIVERSITY
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