A growing family: The expanding universe of the bacterial cytoskeleton

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 256-267

  Ingerson Mahar, Michael ^a   Gitai, Zemer ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell biology; Cytoskeletal homologs; Cytoskeleton; Evolution; Metabolic enzymes; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AMYLOID PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; TUBULIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; COSMOS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 83355166257     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00316.x     Document Type: Review

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