Polymerization of C-terminally truncated Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ is unlikely to be physiologically relevant

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3903-3906

  Borhani, David W ^a   White, E Lucile ^b  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FTSZ PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; METHANOCOCCUS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TIME FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOCOCCUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 11044234844     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27528-0     Document Type: Article

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