Organization and segregation of bacterial chromosomes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 191-203

  Wang, Xindan ^a   Llopis, Paula Montero ^a   Rudner, David Z ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMATID; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; METAPHASE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84874192725     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3375     Document Type: Review

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