Branching sites and morphological abnormalities behave as ectopic poles in shape-defective Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1045-1054

  Nilsen, Trine ^a   Ghosh, Anindya S ^b   Goldberg, Marcia B ^a   Young, Kevin D ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MUTATION; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 3142671582     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04050.x     Document Type: Article

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