FtsZ ring: The eubacterial division apparatus conserved in archaebacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 313-320

  Wang, Xunde ^a   Lutkenhaus, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HALOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0029743706     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.6421360.x     Document Type: Article

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