Getting organized - How bacterial cells move proteins and DNA

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-40

  Thanbichler, Martin ^a   Shapiro, Lucy ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN LIKE PROTEIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRESCENTIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MREC; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WALKER TYPE ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ACTINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CYTOSKELETON; DNA, BACTERIAL; TUBULIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 37349036312     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1795     Document Type: Review

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