Chromosome segregation by the Escherichia coli Min system

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Di Ventura, Barbara ^a,c   Knecht, Benoît ^b   Andreas, Helena ^c   Godinez, William J ^c   Fritsche, Miriam ^b   Rohr, Karl ^c   Nickel, Walter ^c   Heermann, Dieter W ^b   Sourjik, Victor ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

chromosome segregation; computer simulations; DNA binding; Min system; MinD

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MIND PROTEIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84891515776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2013.44     Document Type: Article

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