FtsZ from Escherichia coli, Azotobacter vinelandii, and Thermotoga maritima - Quantitation, GTP hydrolysis, and assembly

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-86

  Lu, Chunlin ^a   Stricker, Jesse ^a   Erickson, Harold P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicinchonic acid; Cell division; Dynamic instability; Nucleation; Quantitative Western blotting; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; MICROFILAMENTS; POTASSIUM; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0031968795     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)40:1<71::AID-CM7>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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