The trans-acting flagellar regulatory proteins, FliX and FlbD, play a central role in linking flagellar biogenesis and cytokinesis in Caulobacter crescentus

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3699-3711

  Muir, Rachel E ^a,b   Easter, Jesse ^a   Gober, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FTSZ PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLBD; PROTEIN FLIX; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOGENESIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOKINESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

EID: 27744457836     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28174-0     Document Type: Article

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