Cell-specific SpoIIIE assembly and DNA translocation polarity are dictated by chromosome orientation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1066-1079

  Becker, Eric C ^a   Pogliano, Kit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN ORIC; PROTEIN RACA; PROTEIN SPOIIIE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPOROGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MUTANT PROTEINS; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 36148947874     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05992.x     Document Type: Article

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