Structure and function of a spectrin-like regulator of bacterial cytokinesis

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cleverley, Robert M ^a   Barrett, Jeffrey R ^b   Baslé, Arnaud ^a   Bui, Nhat Khai ^a,e   Hewitt, Lorraine ^a   Solovyova, Alexandra ^c   Xu, Zhi Qiang ^b   Daniel, Richard A ^a   Dixon, Nicholas E ^b   Harry, Elizabeth J ^d   Oakley, Aaron J ^b   Vollmer, Waldemar ^a   Lewis, Richard J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRIN; TUBULIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; EZRA PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTE; PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BINDING SITE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYTOKINESIS; EUKARYOTE; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; SPECTRIN;

EID: 84923269736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6421     Document Type: Article

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