Skin and bones: The bacterial cytoskeleton, cell wall, and cell morphogenesis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 381-387

  Cabeen, Matthew T ^a   Jacobs Wagner, Christine ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; FTSZ PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TUBULIN; VANCOMYCIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIOLYSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CELL SWELLING; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SPIROPLASMA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL SHAPE; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PRESSURE; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 35948967558     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200708001     Document Type: Short Survey

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