RacA, a bacterial protein that anchors chromosomes to the cell poles

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5606, 2003, Pages 532-536

  Ben Yehuda, Sigal ^a   Rudner, David Z ^a   Losick, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; PROTEINS;

SPORULATION;

CHROMOSOMES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN RACA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ANCHORAGE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MIGRATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EUKARYOTE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SISTER CHROMATID; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

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

EID: 0037462540     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079914     Document Type: Article

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