Shaping and moving a Spiroplasma

Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 78-87

  Trachtenberg, Shlomo ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial motility; Electron microscopy; Linear motors; Mollicutes; Motor proteins; Spiroplasma

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

ACHOLEPLASMA; BACTERIAL CELL; CALCULATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL WALL; CHEMOTAXIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; FLAGELLUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLLICUTES; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHOTOTROPHIC, GLIDING, SHEATHED, BUDDING OR APPENDAGED BACTERIA; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SPIROPLASMA; SWIMMING;

CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOSKELETON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MYCOPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA;

ACHOLEPLASMA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; POSIBACTERIA; SPIROPLASMA;

EID: 2642583114     PISSN: 14641801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077872     Document Type: Review

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