The metabolic enzyme mana reveals a link between cell wall integrity and chromosome morphology

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Elbaz, Maya ^a   Ben Yehuda, Sigal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL SHAPE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE FORMATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78049425656     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001119     Document Type: Article

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