Use of time-lapse microscopy to visualize rapid movement of the replication origin region of the chromosome during the cell cycle in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 883-892

  Webb, Chris D ^a   Graumann, Peter L ^a   Kahana, Jason A ^b   Teleman, Aurelio A ^a   Silver, Pamela A ^b   Losick, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031834480     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00808.x     Document Type: Article

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