Plasmid segregation mechanisms

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2005, Pages 453-479

  Ebersbach, Gitte ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Actin; Oscillation; ParA; ParB; ParM

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACTINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 29444437147     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.38.072902.091252     Document Type: Review

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