Partition-associated incompatibility caused by random assortment of pure plasmid clusters

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1430-1440

  Ebersbach, Gitte ^a   Sherratt, David J ^b   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PAR LOCUS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMIDS; R FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 20344383989     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04643.x     Document Type: Article

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