Chromosome replication and segregation in bacteria

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 121-143

  Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo ^a,b   Nicolas, Emilien ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84870214514     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155421     Document Type: Article

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