Noncanonical SMC protein in Mycobacterium smegmatis restricts maintenance of Mycobacterium fortuitum plasmids

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 13264-13271

  Panas, Michael W ^a,e   Jain, Paras ^b   Yang, Hui ^b   Mitra, Shimontini ^a   Biswas, Debasis ^c   Wattam, Alice Rebecca ^d   Letvin, Norman L ^a   Jacobs, William R ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell division; DNA topology; Electroporation; Partition errors; Plasmid segregation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; MUKB PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE OF CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPTC GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BIOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84964315712     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414207111     Document Type: Article

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