Different walls for rods and balls: The diversity of peptidoglycan

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 862-874

  Turner, Robert D ^a   Vollmer, Waldemar ^b   Foster, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOENGINEERING; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA; CELL WALL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

EID: 84896694420     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12513     Document Type: Review

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