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Control of the cell elongation-division cycle by shuttling of PBP1 protein in Bacillus subtilis.
Molecular microbiology - 1 May 2008
Claessen Dennis, Emmins Robyn, Hamoen Leendert W, Daniel Richard A, Errington Jeff, Edwards David H
Abstract excerpt
The characteristic shape of bacterial cells is mainly determined by the cell wall, the synthesis of which is orchestrated by penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs). Rod-shaped bacteria have two distinct modes of cell wall synthesis, involved in cell elongation and cell division, which are believed to employ different sets of PBPs. A long-held question has been how these different modes of growth are co-ordinated in...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacillus subtilis
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Cycle Proteins
- Cell Division
- Genes, Lethal
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Penicillin-Binding Proteins
- Two-Hybrid System Techniques