Advances in understanding bacterial outer-membrane biogenesis

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-66

  Silhavy, Thomas J ^a   Ruiz, Natividad ^a   Kahne, Daniel ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BIOGENESIS; CELL ENERGY; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 31344479308     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1322     Document Type: Review

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