Enterococcus faecalis divIVA: An essential gene involved in cell division, cell growth and chromosome segregation

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1381-1393

  Ramirez Arcos, Sandra ^a,b   Liao, Mingmin ^a   Marthaler, Susan ^a   Rigden, Marc ^a   Dillon, Jo Anne R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN DIVIVA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 19044377289     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27718-0     Document Type: Article

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