Studying biomolecule localization by engineering bacterial cell wall curvature

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Renner, Lars D ^a,b   Eswaramoorthy, Prahathees ^c   Ramamurthi, Kumaran S ^c   Weibel, Douglas B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PROTEIN DIVIVA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL CURVATURE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOENGINEERING; CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SEPHAROSE; SPHEROPLASTS;

EID: 84896722798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084143     Document Type: Article

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