The bacterial cytoskeleton: An intermediate filament-like function in cell shape

Cell

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 705-713

  Ausmees, Nora ^a   Kuhn, Jeffrey R ^a   Jacobs Wagner, Christine ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRESCENTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOSKELETON; ENERGY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0346020436     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00935-8     Document Type: Article

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