Bacterial intermediate filaments: In vivo assembly, organization, and dynamics of crescentin

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1131-1144

  Charbon, Godefroid ^a,c   Cabeen, Matthew T ^a   Jacobs Wagner, Christine ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caulobacter crescentus; Crescentin; Dynamics; In vivo assembly; Intermediate filament; MreB

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRESCENTIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIC ACID; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN, E COLI; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BLEACHING; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; CELL CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS;

EID: 65449137972     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1795509     Document Type: Article

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