Principles of Bacterial Cell-Size Determination Revealed by Cell-Wall Synthesis Perturbations

Cell Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1520-1527

  Tropini, Carolina ^a,b   Lee, Timothy K ^a   Hsin, Jen ^a   Desmarais, Samantha M ^a   Ursell, Tristan ^a   Monds, Russell D ^a   Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^a,b,c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MREB PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MRDA PROTEIN, E COLI; MREB PROTEIN, E COLI; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELL METABOLISM; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; BLEACHING; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE INACTIVATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOTOBLEACHING;

EID: 84912142914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.10.027     Document Type: Article

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