Dancing around the divisome: Asymmetric chromosome segregation in Escherichia coli

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2367-2377

  Wang, Xindan ^a   Possoz, Christophe ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome segregation; Divisome; FtsK; FtsZ; ori; ter

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOKINESIS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; INVAGINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPLICATION ORIGIN; S PHASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 25144481661     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.345305     Document Type: Article

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