The two Escherichia coli chromosome arms locate to separate cell halves

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1727-1731

  Wang, Xindan ^a   Liu, Xun ^a   Possoz, Christophe ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome; E. coli; Replichore; Segregation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME IMPRINTING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOKINESIS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745603713     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.388406     Document Type: Article

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