Use of thymine limitation and thymine starvation to study bacterial physiology and cytology

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1667-1679

  Zaritsky, Arieh ^a   Woldringh, Conrad L ^b   Einav, Monica ^a   Alexeeva, Svetlana ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; MECILLINAM; THYMINE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY; STARVATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; THYMINE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33644761270     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.5.1667-1679.2006     Document Type: Short Survey

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