Conditional expression of Mycobacterium smegmatis ftsZ, an essential cell division gene

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1593-1603

  Dziadek, Jaroslaw ^a,b   Rutherford, Stacey A ^a   Madiraju, Murty V ^a   Atkinson, Mark A L ^a   Rajagopalan, Malini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; FTSZ PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETHALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0038141823     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26023-0     Document Type: Article

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