Probing plasmid partition with centromere-based incompatibility

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 511-525

  Bouet, Jean Yves ^a   Rech, Jérôme ^a   Egloff, Sylvain ^a   Biek, Donald P ^a,b   Lane, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SOPB; PROTEIN SOPC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; MITOSIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 13144251156     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04396.x     Document Type: Article

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