The bacterial cell division protein FtsZ assembles into cytoplasmic rings in fission yeast

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1741-1746

  Srinivasan, Ramanujam ^a   Mishra, Mithilesh ^a   Wu, Lifang ^a   Yin, Zhongchao ^a   Balasubramanian, Mohan K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cytokinesis; Ftsz; Tubulin; Yeast

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 46249087769     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1660908     Document Type: Article

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