Mechanism of DNA segregation in prokaryotes: ParM partitioning protein of plasmid R1 co-localizes with its replicon during the cell cycle

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 4076-4084

  Jensen, Rasmus Bugge ^b   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GFP; Intracellular localization; parA; Partitioning; Plasmid segregation

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REPLICON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CEPHALEXIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPLICON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0033565651     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.14.4076     Document Type: Article

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