Cell size and nucleoid organization of engineered Escherichia coli cells with a reduced genome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 137-149

  Hashimoto, Masayuki ^a   Ichimura, Toshiharu ^a   Mizoguchi, Hiroshi ^b   Tanaka, Kimie ^b   Fujimitsu, Kazuyuki ^c   Keyamura, Kenji ^c   Ote, Tomotake ^a   Yamakawa, Takehiro ^d   Yamazaki, Yukiko ^d   Mori, Hideo ^b   Katayama, Tsutomu ^c   Kato, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOID; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INDOLES; MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 19944431737     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04386.x     Document Type: Article

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