Movement and equipositioning of plasmids by ParA filament disassembly

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 19369-19374

  Ringgaard, Simon ^a,b   Van Zon, Jeroen ^c,d   Howard, Martin ^e   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; DNA segregation; Mathematical modeling; ParA ParB; Pulling

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PARA; PROTEIN PARB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHROMOSOME PARTITION PROTEINS, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARC GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIUM; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLASMIDS; POLYMERS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 73349101910     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908347106     Document Type: Article

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