Concerted action of plasmid maintenance functions: Partition complexes create a requirement for dimer resolution

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1447-1459

  Bouet, Jean Yves ^a   Bouvier, Marie ^a,b   Lane, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOMER;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33750726732     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05454.x     Document Type: Article

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