DNA and origin region segregation are not affected by the transition from rod to sphere after inhibition of Escherichia coli MreB by A22

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-63

  Karczmarek, Aneta ^a,b   Baselga, Rocío Martínez Arteaga ^c   Alexeeva, Svetlana ^a,b   Hansen, Flemming G ^d   Vicente, Miguel ^c   Nanninga, Nanne ^a,b   Den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Campus de Cantoblanco ^*  (Netherlands)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A22; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; MECILLINAM; MREB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION;

AMDINOCILLIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34250627500     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05777.x     Document Type: Article

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