Bacterial Mitosis: ParM of Plasmid R1 Moves Plasmid DNA by an Actin-like Insertional Polymerization Mechanism

Molecular Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1477-1487

  Møller Jensen, Jakob ^a,b   Borch, Jonas ^a   Dam, Mette ^a   Jensen, Rasmus B ^a,c   Roepstorff, Peter ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MRC LMB   (United Kingdom)

^c GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PARTITIONING SYSTEM C PROTEIN; PARTITIONING SYSTEM M PROTEIN; PARTITIONING SYSTEM R PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0346980557     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00451-9     Document Type: Article

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