The bacterium's way for safe enlargement and division

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 3657-3663

  Koch, A L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033823402     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.9.3657-3663.2000     Document Type: Short Survey

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