Three-dimensional structure of the Z-ring as a random network of FtsZ filaments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3252-3258

  Piro, Oreste ^a   Carmon, Gideon ^b,c   Feingold, Mario ^b   Fishov, Itzhak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Holland Building   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 84888865402     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12197     Document Type: Article

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