Cellular engineering in a minimal microbe: Structure and assembly of the terminal organelle of Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 917-924

  Krause, Duncan C ^a   Balish, Mitchell F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIVISION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL WALL; ELECTRON; HUMAN; MICROORGANISM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; ORGANELLES; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 1442300837     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03899.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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