Coordination of peptidoglycan synthesis and outer membrane constriction during Escherichia coli cell division

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Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Gray, Andrew N ^a   Egan, Alexander J F ^b   van't Veer, Inge L ^c   Verheul, Jolanda ^d   Colavin, Alexandre ^e   Koumoutsi, Alexandra ^f   Biboy, Jacob ^b   Altelaar, Maarten A F ^c   Damen, Mirjam J ^c   Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^e,g,h   Simorre, Jean Pierre ⁱ   Breukink, Eefjan ^c   den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^d   Typas, Athanasios ^f   Gross, Carol A ^a,j,k   Vollmer, Waldemar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^g Stanford University   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE TRANSPEPTIDASE; CHLOROPHENOL; CHLOROPHENOL RED GALACTOPYRANOSIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GALACTOSIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEIN 1B, E COLI; PEPTIDOGLYCAN GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PRIMER DNA; YBGF PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLOROPHENOLS; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GALACTOSIDES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMIDS; SERINE-TYPE D-ALA-D-ALA CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

EID: 84930636092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07118     Document Type: Article

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