The bacterial cytoskeleton

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-310

  Watters, Christopher ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FTSZ PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CYTOSKELETON; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TEACHING; VIDEO RECORDING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33846007687     PISSN: '     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.06-09-0188     Document Type: Review

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