Assembly of the FtsZ ring at the central division site in the absence of the chromosome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 491-503

  Sun, Qin ^a   Yu, Xuan Chuan ^a   Margolin, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MUTANT; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031850025     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00942.x     Document Type: Article

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