The Escherichia coli chromosome is organized with the left and right chromosome arms in separate cell halves

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 331-338

  Nielsen, Henrik J ^a   Ottesen, Jesper R ^a,c   Youngren, Brenda ^b   Austin, Stuart J ^b   Hansen, Flemming G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33749177128     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05346.x     Document Type: Article

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