High-copy bacterial plasmids diffuse in the nucleoid-free space, replicate stochastically and are randomly partitioned at cell division

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1042-1051

  Reyes Lamothe, Rodrigo ^a,b   Tran, Tung ^a,c   Meas, Diane ^a   Lee, Laura ^a   Li, Alice M ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a   Tolmasky, Marcelo E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DAUGHTER CELL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; DIFFUSION; DNA REPLICATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PLASMIDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84893258556     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt918     Document Type: Article

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