How did bacterial ancestors reproduce? Lessons from L-form cells and giant lipid vesicles: Multiplication similarities between lipid vesicles and L-form bacteria

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1078-1084

  Briers, Yves ^a,b   Walde, Peter ^a   Schuppler, Markus ^a   Loessner, Martin J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolution; L form bacteria; Protocell; Protoplast; Spheroplast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL BUDDING; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CELL WALL; CYTOSKELETON; LIPID VESICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTOPLAST;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; L FORMS; LIPIDS; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84869117583     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200080     Document Type: Article

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