Cell division is dispensable but not irrelevant in Streptomyces

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 689-698

  McCormick, Joseph R ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FTSZ PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CELL DIVISION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

CELL DIVISION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STREPTOMYCES;

STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 71549166319     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.10.004     Document Type: Review

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