Chromosome Segregation Impacts on Cell Growth and Division Site Selection in Corynebacterium glutamicum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Donovan, Catriona ^a,b   Schauss, Astrid ^c   Krämer, Reinhard ^b   Bramkamp, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE MUTATION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; MUTATION;

EID: 84873550617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055078     Document Type: Article

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