Cyanobacterial cell walls: News from an unusual prokaryotic envelope

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1191-1199

  Hoiczyk, Egbert ^a   Hansel, Alfred ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CAROTENOID; DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; LYSINE; O ANTIGEN; PALMITIC ACID; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PORIN; TEICHOIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; GRAM STAINING; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SHORT SURVEY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL WALL; CHLOROPLASTS; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033968660     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.5.1191-1199.2000     Document Type: Short Survey

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