Bacillus subtilis actin-like protein MreB influences the positioning of the replication machinery and requires membrane proteins MreC/D and other actin-like proteins for proper localization

BMC Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Soufo, Hervé Joël Defeu ^a,b   Graumann, Peter L ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 22944489133     PISSN: 14712121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-6-10     Document Type: Article

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