A magnesium-dependent mreB null mutant: Implications for the role of mreB in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1646-1657

  Formstone, Alex ^a   Errington, Jeffery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; MREB PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL POLARITY; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOLYSIS; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MREB GENE; MREC GENE; MRED GENE; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; OPERON; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MAGNESIUM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUCROSE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 15944399775     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04506.x     Document Type: Article

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