The bacterial actin-like cytoskeleton

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 888-909

  Carballido López, Rut ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; F ACTIN; MREB PROTEIN; MREC PROTEIN; MRED PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN MAMK; PROTEIN PARM; PROTEIN TA0583; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

ACTINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33845619142     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00014-06     Document Type: Review

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