Colocalization and interaction between elongasome and divisome during a preparative cell division phase in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1074-1087

  Van der Ploeg, René ^a   Verheul, Jolanda ^a   Vischer, Norbert O E ^a   Alexeeva, Svetlana ^a,c,d   Hoogendoorn, Eelco ^a   Postma, Marten ^a   Banzhaf, Manuel ^b,e   Vollmer, Waldemar ^b   Den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL SIZE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE;

CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ORGANELLES; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84874214695     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12150     Document Type: Article

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