Effects of the Min system on nucleoid segregation in Escherichia coli

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3213-3222

  Åkerlund, Thonas ^a   Gullbrand, Björn ^a   Nordström, Kurt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cell size; Min mutants; Minicells

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CELL POPULATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036773121     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-10-3213     Document Type: Article

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