The essential features and modes of bacterial polar growth

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 347-353

  Cameron, Todd A ^a   Zupan, John R ^a   Zambryski, Patricia C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinomycetales; Bacterial cell division; Bacterial polar growth; Peptidoglycan synthesis; Rhizobiales

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIVIVA PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MREB PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FTSA PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ACTINOMYCETALES; AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL POLAR GROWTH; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL POLARITY; LIPOGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RHIZOBIALES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIUM; CELL CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ACTINOMYCETALES; AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; RHIZOBIALES;

ACTINOMYCETALES; AGROBACTERIUM; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

EID: 84930925768     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.01.003     Document Type: Review

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