Bacterial chromosome segregation

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 567-597

  Draper, Geoffrey C ^a   Gober, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome segregation; ParA; ParB; SMC proteins; Soj; Spo0J; SpoIIIE

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA BINDING; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CELL SEPARATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036405229     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.160729     Document Type: Review

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