FtsK, a literate chromosome segregation machine

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1434-1441

  Bigot, Sarah ^a,b   Sivanathan, Viknesh ^c   Possoz, Christophe ^b,c   Barre, François Xavier ^b   Cornet, François ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN FTSK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHORT SURVEY;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34250005713     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05755.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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