Temporal and spatial oscillations in bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 565-577

  Lenz, Peter ^a   Søgaard Andersen, Lotte ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CELL CYCLE; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960396323     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2612     Document Type: Review

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