Gliding motility: Anticipating the next move with a molecular clock

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Margolin, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FRZS PROTEIN, MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

FIMBRIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

MYXOCOCCALES;

EID: 31944432913     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.027     Document Type: Short Survey

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