MreB: Pilot or passenger of cell wall synthesis?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 74-79

  White, Courtney L ^a   Gober, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MRAY PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; MREC PROTEIN; MRED PROTEIN; MURF PROTEIN; MURG PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RODA PROTEIN; RODZ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL SYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL ELONGATION; CELL SHAPE; ELECTRON CRYOTOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLYCOSYLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RESOLUTION LIGHT MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ROD SHAPED BACTERIA; TOMOGRAPHY; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; TRANSPEPTIDATION;

BACTERIA; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELL WALL; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84856653970     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2011.11.004     Document Type: Review

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