Cell division and DNA segregation in Streptomyces: How to build a septum in the middle of nowhere?

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 393-404

  Jakimowicz, Dagmara ^a,c   Van Wezel, Gilles P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 2; SSGA LIKE PROTEIN; SSGB LIKE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; STREPTOMYCES VENEZUELAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 84864109890     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08107.x     Document Type: Review

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