Mutants, suppressors, and wrinkled colonies: Mutant alleles of the cell division gene ftsQ point to functional domains in FtsQ and a role for domain 1C of FtsA in divisome assembly

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 633-645

  Goehring, Nathan W ^a   Petrovska, Ivana ^a   Boyd, Dana ^a   Beckwith, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FTSA; PROTEIN FTSB; PROTEIN FTSI; PROTEIN FTSK; PROTEIN FTSL; PROTEIN FTSQ; PROTEIN FTSW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FTSK GENE; FTSQ GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; ZIPA GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846237649     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00991-06     Document Type: Article

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