Cytoskeletal elements in bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2007, Pages 589-618

  Graumann, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cell morphology; Cytoskeleton; FtsZ; Intermediate filaments; MreB

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DYNAMIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PROTEIN CFPA; PROTEIN SECA; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOSKELETON; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SPIROCHETE; SPOROGENESIS;

ACTINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETON; DYNAMINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 35848966372     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.61.080706.093236     Document Type: Review

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