Cross-linking FtsZ polymers into coherent Z rings

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 651-668

  Dajkovic, Alex ^a   Pichoff, Sebastien ^b   Lutkenhaus, Joe ^b   Wirtz, Denis ^a  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; MONOMER; POLYMER; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZAPA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN BINDING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77958541857     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07352.x     Document Type: Article

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