Cell wall elongation mode in Gram-negative bacteria is determined by peptidoglycan architecture

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Turner, Robert D ^a   Hurd, Alexander F ^a   Cadby, Ashley ^a   Hobbs, Jamie K ^a   Foster, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; LYSIS; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL ELONGATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURAMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84874644598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2503     Document Type: Article

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