Contribution of the FtsQ transmembrane segment to localization to the cell division site

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 7273-7280

  Scheffers, Dirk Jan ^a   Robichon, Carine ^b,d   Haan, Gert Jan ^a,e   Den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^c   Koningstein, Gregory ^a   Van Bloois, Edwin ^a   Beckwith, Jon ^b   Luirink, Joen ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN FTSB; PROTEIN FTSL; PROTEIN FTSQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FTSQ GENE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 35048814201     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00723-07     Document Type: Article

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