The MreB and Min cytoskeletal-like systems play independent roles in prokaryotic polar differentiation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 917-928

  Shih, Yu Ling ^a   Kawagishi, Ikuro ^b   Rothfield, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MIN PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; TAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SHIGELLA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SHIGELLA; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 27944489446     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04841.x     Document Type: Article

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