Morphogenesis of rod-shaped sacculi

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 321-344

  Den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^a   De Pedro, Miguel A ^b   Nguyen Distèche, Martine ^c   Ayala, Juan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cell division; Divisome; Elongase; Escherichia coli; PBP; Peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

PENTAPEPTIDE;

BACTERIAL CELL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOSKELETON; DAUGHTER CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 39149142542     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00090.x     Document Type: Review

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