ParB partition proteins: Complex formation and spreading at bacterial and plasmid centromeres

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Funnell, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bridging; Chromosome dynamics; DNA binding; ParABS; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017233032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296889X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2016.00044     Document Type: Short Survey

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