Interplay of DNA supercoiling and catenation during the segregation of sister duplexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5126-5137

  Martínez Robles, María Luisa ^a   Witz, Guillaume ^b,c   Hernández, Pablo ^a   Schvartzman, Jorge B ^a   Stasiak, Andrzej ^b   Krimer, Dora B ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATENANE; CIRCULAR DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEGREGATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

DNA GYRASE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, CATENATED; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 69849112239     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp530     Document Type: Article

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