Segregation of the Escherichia coli chromosome terminus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 825-834

  Li, Yongfang ^a   Youngren, Brenda ^a   Sergueev, Kirill ^a   Austin, Stuart ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XERC RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GROWTH RATE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0242606194     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03746.x     Document Type: Article

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