Control of chromosome replication in Caulobacter crescentus

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 625-656

  Marczynski, Gregory T ^a   Shapiro, Lucy ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; CtrA; DnaA; Replication origin; Response regulator

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036408373     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.161103     Document Type: Review

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