The bacterial segrosome: A dynamic nucleoprotein machine for DNA trafficking and segregation

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-143

  Hayes, Finbarr ^a   Barillà, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; DAUGHTER CELL; DNA TRANSFER; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 31544463593     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1342     Document Type: Review

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