Cell-cycle progression and the generation of asymmetry in Caulobacter crescentus

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 325-337

  Skerker, Jeffrey M ^a   Laub, Michael T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CTRA PROTEIN, CAULOBACTER; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BINDING SITE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BINDING; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, CDC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 2142647271     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro864     Document Type: Review

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