Spatial control of bacterial division-site placement

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 959-968

  Rothfield, Lawrence ^a   Taghbalout, Aziz ^a   Shih, Yu Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA A; DNA B; FTSA PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PROTEIN MIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIPA PROTEIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHLOROPLASTS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POSIBACTERIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 30544445654     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1290     Document Type: Review

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