Decoding Caulobacter development

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 193-205

  Kirkpatrick, Clare L ^a   Viollier, Patrick H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymmetric division; Caulobacter crescentus; Cell cycle; Differentiation; Signaling; Two component systems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; DAUGHTER CELL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; KIN SELECTION; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAULOBACTER; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

EID: 83355163220     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00309.x     Document Type: Review

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