Complex polar machinery required for proper chromosome segregation in vegetative and sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 333-350

  Kloosterman, Tomas G ^a,b   Lenarcic, Rok ^a,c   Willis, Clare R ^a   Roberts, David M ^a   Hamoen, Leendert W ^a,d   Errington, Jeff ^a   Wu, Ling J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Lek Pharmaceuticals dd   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMN PROTEIN; DIVIVA PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; MINJ PROTEIN; RACA PROTEIN; SOJ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; ORIC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPOROGENESIS;

EID: 84977662492     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13393     Document Type: Article

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