Increasing complexity of the bacterial cytoskeleton

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-81

  Møller Jensen, Jakob ^a   Löwe, Jan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CRESCENTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; MINC PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PROTEIN DIVVIA; PROTEIN EZRA; PROTEIN FTSA; PROTEIN MINE; PROTEIN NOC; PROTEIN PARM; PROTEIN SETB; PROTEIN SULA; PROTEIN ZAPA; PROTEIN ZIPA; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACTINS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SULA;

EID: 12344260570     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2004.11.002     Document Type: Review

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