The bacterial cytoskeleton

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 729-754

  Shih, Yu Ling ^a,b   Rothfield, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAMK; PROTEIN PARA; PROTEIN PARB; PROTEIN PARM; PROTEIN SEC; PROTEIN SETB; PROTEIN TAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CELL; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA MELLIFERUM; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PHAGODENIS;

ACTINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TUBULIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33749264425     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00017-06     Document Type: Review

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