Artificial septal targeting of Bacillus subtilis cell division proteins in Escherichia coli: An interspecies approach to the study of protein-protein interactions in multiprotein complexes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 6048-6059

  Robichon, Carine ^a,b   King, Glenn F ^c,d   Goehring, Nathan W ^a,e   Beckwith, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIV1B PROTEIN; DIV1C PROTEIN; FTSL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZAPA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIVISION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOKINESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 51549084792     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00462-08     Document Type: Article

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