Bi-modal Distribution of the Second Messenger c-di-GMP Controls Cell Fate and Asymmetry during the Caulobacter Cell Cycle

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Abel, Sören ^a,c   Bucher, Tabitha ^a,d   Nicollier, Micaël ^a,e   Hug, Isabelle ^a   Kaever, Volkhard ^b   Abel zur Wiesch, Pia ^c   Jenal, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e ACTELION PHARMACEUTICALS LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC DI GMP; CYCLIC GMP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENE MAPPING; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CAULOBACTER; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CYCLIC GMP; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84884684992     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003744     Document Type: Article

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