The different shapes of cocci

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 345-360

  Zapun, André ^a   Vernet, Thierry ^a   Pinho, Mariana G ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bacterial division; Murein; Penicillin binding proteins; Peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FTSZ PROTEIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROLASE; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEINASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL SHAPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COCCUS (BACTERIUM); COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOTOPE LABELING; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROCOCCUS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PEDIOCOCCUS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; MORPHOGENESIS; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; NEISSERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 39149098134     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00098.x     Document Type: Review

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