Bacterial shape: Two-dimensional questions and possibilities

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2010, Pages 223-240

  Young, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial cytoskeleton; cell diameter; cell division; cell length; FtsZ; MreB

Indexed keywords

FTSZ PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77957963129     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.112408.134102     Document Type: Review

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