Productive interaction between the chromosome partitioning proteins, ParA and ParB, is required for the progression of the cell cycle in Caulobacter crescentus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1225-1237

  Figge, Rainer M ^a,b   Easter Jr , Jesse ^a   Gober, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PARTITIONING PROTEIN A; CHROMOSOME PARTITIONING PROTEIN B; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, LETHAL; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE DELETION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037341855     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03367.x     Document Type: Article

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