Polar explorations. Recent insights into the polarity of bacterial proteins

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 617-623

  Bardy, Sonia L ^a   Maddock, Janine R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 36549055736     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.10.006     Document Type: Review

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