Structural/functional homology between the bacterial and eukaryotic cytoskeletons

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-31

  Amos, Linda A ^a   Van Den Ent, Fusinita ^a   Löwe, Jan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 adenylyl imidodiphosphate; AMPPNP; Electron microscopy; EM; GFP; Green fluorescent protein; GTP; Guanosine 5 triphosphate; MAPs; MD; Microtubule associated proteins; Mitochondrion dividing; PD; PH; Plastid dividing; Pleckstrin homology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DYNAMIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; SYNTAXIN;

ABSCISSION; ANIMAL CELL; ATOMIC PARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL DIVISION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL TYPE; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; LIGATION; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MITOCHONDRION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 1642344759     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2003.11.005     Document Type: Review

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