Replication fork and SeqA focus distributions in Escherichia coli suggest a replication hyperstructure dependent on nucleotide metabolism

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1597-1612

  Molina, Felipe ^a,b   Skarstad, Kirsten ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; REPLICATION ORIGIN; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3042513379     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04097.x     Document Type: Article

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