Bacterial Cytoskeleton: Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Tubulin

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Margolin, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

BACILLUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PLASMID; SHORT SURVEY;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULES; PLASMIDS; TUBULIN;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34547907793     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.020     Document Type: Short Survey

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