Dislocation-mediated growth of bacterial cell walls

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 9833-9838

  Amir, Ariel ^a   Nelson, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysics; Cell wall growth; Microbiology

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA; CELL WALL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84862517940     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207105109     Document Type: Article

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