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In molecular biology the ZapA protein family is a group of related proteins that includes the cell division protein ZapA. The structure of ZapA has a core structure consisting of two layers alpha/beta and has a long C-terminal helix that forms dimeric parallel and tetrameric antiparallel coiled coils. ZapA interacts with FtsZ where FtsZ is part of a mid-cell cytokinetic structure termed the Z-ring that recruits a hierarchy of fission related proteins early in the bacterial cell cycle.
