Localization of the Escherichia coli cell division protein FtsI (PBP3) to the division site and cell pole

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 671-681

  Weiss, David S ^a   Pogliano, Kit ^b,c   Carson, Michael ^d   Guzman, Luz Maria ^a,e   Fraipont, Claudine ^f   Nguyen Distèche, Martine ^f   Losick, Richard ^b   Beckwith, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030881627     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5041869.x     Document Type: Article

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