The role of Par proteins in the active segregation of the P1 plasmid

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-102

  Li, Yongfang ^a   Dabrazhynetskaya, Alena ^a   Youngren, Brenda ^a   Austin, Stuart ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BINDING PROTEIN; PAR A PROTEIN; PAR B PROTEIN; PAR S PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GROWTH RATE; MICROSCOPY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3142521718     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04111.x     Document Type: Article

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