Functional polarization of the Escherichia coli chromosome terminus: The dif site acts in chromosome dimer resolution only when located between long stretches of opposite polarity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-43

  Pérals, Koryn ^a   Cornet, François ^a   Merlet, Yann ^a   Delon, Isabelle ^a   Louarn, Jean Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034115179     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01847.x     Document Type: Article

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