Solution structure and domain architecture of the divisome protein FtsN

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 651-660

  Yang, Ji Chun ^a   Van Den Ent, Fusinita ^a   Neuhaus, David ^a   Brevier, Julian ^b   Löwe, Jan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN FTSN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2442631494     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.03991.x     Document Type: Article

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