The choreographed dynamics of bacterial chromosomes

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 221-228

  Gitai, Zemer ^a,b   Thanbichler, Martin ^a   Shapiro, Lucy ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CAULOBACTER; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOSKELETON; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 18044363711     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2005.03.006     Document Type: Review

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