Bacterial cell division

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue , 1999, Pages 423-448

  Rothfield, L ^a   Justice, S ^a   Garcia Lara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cell shape; fts genes; Morphogenesis; Septation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

CAULOBACTER; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033367406     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.33.1.423     Document Type: Review

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