Out on a limb: How the Caulobacter stalk can boost the study of bacterial cell shape

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 28-33

  Wagner, Jennifer K ^a   Brun, Yves V ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; MORPHOGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

EID: 33947290102     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05633.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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