Probing the domain structure of FtsZ by random truncation and insertion of GFP

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4033-4043

  Osawa, Masaki ^a   Erickson, Harold P ^a  

^a 3709 Duke University Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FTSZ PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 29244436874     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28219-0     Document Type: Article

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