Discovery of two novel families of proteins that are proposed to interact with prokaryotic SMC proteins, and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis family members ScpA and ScpB

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-71

  Soppa, Jörg ^d   Kobayashi, Kazuo ^d   Noirot Gros, Marie Françoise ^a   Oesterhelt, Dieter ^b   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^a   Dervyn, Etienne ^a   Ogasawara, Naotake ^c   Moriya, Shigeki ^d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SEGREGATION AND CONDENSATION PROTEIN A; SEGREGATION AND CONDENSATION PROTEIN B; STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE OF CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036049587     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03012.x     Document Type: Article

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