Evidence for a DNA-relay mechanism in ParABS-mediated chromosome segregation

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lim, Hoong Chuin ^a   Surovtsev, Ivan V ^a   Beltran, Bruno G ^a,d   Huang, Fang ^b   Bewersdorf, Joerg ^b,c   Jacobs Wagner, Christine ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caulobacter crescentus; DNA partitioning; Par system

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA RELAY MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GEL FILTRATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PLASMID; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; WESTERN BLOTTING; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC LOCI; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84902324665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02758     Document Type: Article

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