A dynamically assembled cell wall synthesis machinery buffers cell growth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4554-4559

  Lee, Timothy K ^a   Tropini, Carolina ^a,b   Hsin, Jen ^a   Desmarais, Samantha M ^a   Ursell, Tristan S ^a   Gong, Enhao ^a   Gitai, Zemer ^c   Monds, Russell D ^a,e   Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^a,b,d  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell wall; Multienzyme complexes; Pencillin binding proteins; Superresolution microscopy

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; MECILLINAM; MREB PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2B;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PENCILLIN BINDING PROTEINS; SUPERRESOLUTION MICROSCOPY;

CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896967755     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313826111     Document Type: Article

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