Dynamic localization of bacterial and plasmid chromosomes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue , 2000, Pages 21-59

  Hiraga, S ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosome partitioning; MukFEB complex; oriC; ParA homolog; ParB homolog; Plasmid partitioning; Smc protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN MUKB; PROTEIN MUKE; PROTEIN MUKF; PROTEIN PARA; PROTEIN PARB; PROTEIN SEQA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034511875     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.34.1.21     Document Type: Review

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