Ring, helix, sphere and cylinder: The basic geometry of prokaryotic cell division. Workshop on manufacturing bacteria: Design, production and assembly of cell division components

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 655-660

  Vicente, Miguel ^a   Löwe, Jan ^b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RECA PROTEIN; NUCLEOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL POLARITY; CHLAMYDIA; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GEOMETRY; METHANOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; WORKSHOP; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOKINESIS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE SEGREGATION; HUMAN; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

BACTERIA; CELL DIVISION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 0042065105     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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