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Technical Terms FtsZ: A bacterial protein essential for cell division, analogous to eukaryotic tubulin in its ability to form filamentous structures.

Bacterial structural biology is a scientific discipline that concerns the structure of bacterial macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids.