Themes and variations in prokaryotic cell division

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 531-548

  Margolin, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterium; Binary fission; Cell division; Septation

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL DIVISION; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLAMYDIA; CYTOKINESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ORGANELLES; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033823009     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(00)00038-3     Document Type: Review

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