Towards a bottom-up reconstitution of bacterial cell division

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 634-643

  Martos, Ariadna ^a   Jiménez, Mercedes ^b   Rivas, Germán ^b   Schwille, Petra ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Constructive synthetic biology; Cytomimetic biochemistry; Escherichia coli; FtsZ; Macromolecular interactions; Min system

Indexed keywords

NANODISC;

BACTERIAL CELL; BIOMIMETICS; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE RECONSTITUTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84869878393     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2012.09.003     Document Type: Review

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