Distribution, formation and regulation of gas vesicles

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 705-715

  Pfeifer, Felicitas ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GAS VESICLE PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL VACUOLE; CELL WALL; FLOTATION; GAS VESICLE; GENE CLUSTER; HALOBACTERIALES; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; HALOBACTERIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84867870075     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2834     Document Type: Review

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