Towards understanding the molecular basis of bacterial DNA segregation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1455, 2005, Pages 523-535

  Leonard, Thomas A ^a   Møller Jensen, Jakob ^a   Löwe, Jan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome segregation; MinCDE; ParAB; Partitioning system; Soj; SpoOj

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PARTITION PROTEINS, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOSKELETON; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOSKELETON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 20544475284     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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