Partitioning of the linear chromosome during sporulation of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) involves an oriC-linked parAB locus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1313-1320

  Kim, Hyun Jin ^a,d   Calcutt, Michael J ^b   Schmidt, Francis J ^c   Chater, Keith F ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHROMOSOME; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPOROGENESIS; STOP CODON; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES; UP-REGULATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033953877     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.5.1313-1320.2000     Document Type: Article

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