PVC bacteria: Variation of, but not exception to, the Gram-negative cell plan

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-20

  Devos, Damien P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell plan; Domains of life; PVC

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANCTOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PLANCTOMYCETES; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

BACTERIAL CELL PLAN; DOMAINS OF LIFE; PVC;

GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84891371283     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2013.10.008     Document Type: Review

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