Genomic channeling in bacterial cell division

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 481-487

  Mingorance, Jesús ^a   Tamames, Javier ^b   Vicente, Miguel ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b BioAlma   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell shape; Cell division; dcw cluster; Gene cluster; Gene order

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4544221748     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmr.718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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