Streptomyces coelicolor genes ftsL and divIC play a role in cell division but are dispensable for colony formation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 8982-8992

  Bennett, Jennifer A ^a,b   Aimino, Rachel M ^a   McCormick, Joseph R ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CELL DIVISION; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DELETION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 37449000342     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01303-07     Document Type: Article

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