DnaA: Controlling the initiation of bacterial DNA replication and more

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2006, Pages 351-371

  Kaguni, Jon M ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta subunit; datA; Escherichia coli; Hda; Regulation; SeqA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA A; DNA BASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; PROTEIN HDA; PROTEIN SEQA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; DAM GENE; DATA GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE LOCUS; HYDROLYSIS; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; ORIC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; RIFAMPIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33750312968     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.60.080805.142111     Document Type: Review

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