How do bacteria localize proteins to the cell pole?

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-19

  Laloux, Géraldine ^a   Jacobs Wagner, Christine ^b,c  

^a DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell cycle; Polar localization; Spatial organization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GEOMETRY; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLAR BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIAL CELL CYCLE; POLAR LOCALIZATION; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84891509603     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.138628     Document Type: Note

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