Dynamic movement of actin-like proteins within bacterial cells

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 789-794

  Defeu Soufo, Hervé Joël ^a   Graumann, Peter L ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Bacillus subtilis; Intracellular movement

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MBL PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; MREBH PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VELOCITY;

ACTINS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4444285310     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400209     Document Type: Article

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