Actin homolog MreB and RNA polymerase interact and are both required for chromosome segregation in Escherichia coli

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-124

  Kruse, Thomas ^a   Blagoev, Blagoy ^a   Løbner Olesen, Anders ^b   Wachi, Masaaki ^c   Sasaki, Kumi ^c   Iwai, Noritaka ^c   Mann, Matthias ^a,d   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Chromosome segregation; MreB; oriC; RNA polymerase (RNAP); terC

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DNA; MREB PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 29944438325     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.366606     Document Type: Article

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