Escherichia coli cell cycle control genes affect chromosome superhelicity

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2000, Pages

  Weitao, Tao ^a   Nordström, Kurt ^a   Dasgupta, Santanu ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ETHIDIUM; INTERCALATING AGENT; MUKB PROTEIN, E COLI; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECF PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RECF PROTEIN, E COLI; SEQA PROTEIN, E COLI; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; DOSE RESPONSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHLOROQUINE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHIDIUM; INTERCALATING AGENTS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0034573198     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd106     Document Type: Article

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