Cell division in corynebacterineae

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Donovan, Catriona ^a   Bramkamp, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cell division; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Diviva; Ftsz; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Par system; Serine threonine kinases

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DIVISOME PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLPX; FTSZ PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; LYSOZYME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MINC PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; PARA PROTEIN; PARB PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2B; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOMYCETALES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CYTOKINESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84899678387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00132     Document Type: Review

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