Replication fork movement and methylation govern SeqA binding to the Escherichia coli chromosome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5465-5476

  Waldminghaus, Torsten ^a,c   Weigel, Christoph ^b   Skarstad, Kirsten ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SEQA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GROWTH RATE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REPLICATION FORK MOVEMENT;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84863227289     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks187     Document Type: Article

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