Bacterial cell division: A moving MinE sweeper boggles the MinD

Current Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2001, Pages

  Margolin, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0342420593     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00217-2     Document Type: Review

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