The ABCs of plasmid replication and segregation

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 755-765

  Pinto, Uelinton M ^a   Pappas, Katherine M ^b   Winans, Stephen C ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; DNA; RNA;

DNA METHYLATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84867832840     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2882     Document Type: Review

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