Plasmid segregation: How to survive as an extra piece of DNA

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 296-317

  Salje, Jeanne ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Cytomotive filaments; DNA segregation; Horizontal gene transfer; ParA; ParM; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN PARA; PROTEIN PARB; PROTEIN PARC; PROTEIN PARM; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEGREGATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROFILAMENT; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; EUKARYOTA; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PLASMIDS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77954576349     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2010.494657     Document Type: Review

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