Multidimensional view of the bacterial cytoskeleton

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1627-1636

  Celler, Katherine ^a   Koning, Roman I ^b   Koster, Abraham J ^b   van Wezel, Gilles P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN CRESCENTIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ACHOLEPLASMA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CELL; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROSCOPY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA; CELL SHAPE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 84876087428     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02194-12     Document Type: Review

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