On the birth and fate of bacterial division sites

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-26

  Bouché, Jean Pierre ^a   Pichoff, Sébastien ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031821947     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00874.x     Document Type: Review

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