Peptidoglycan architecture can specify division planes in Staphylococcus aureus

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Turner, Robert D ^a   Ratcliffe, Emma C ^a   Wheeler, Richard ^a   Golestanian, Ramin ^a   Hobbs, Jamie K ^a   Foster, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VITACEAE;

EID: 84867527694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1025     Document Type: Article

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