Genetic recombination and the cell cycle: What we have learned from chromosome dimers

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1151-1160

  Lesterlin, Christian ^a   Barre, François Xavier ^a   Cornet, François ^a  

^a UPS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME DIMER; DIMER; PROTEIN DIF; PROTEIN FTSK; PROTEIN XERC; PROTEIN XERD; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CROSSING OVER; DNA METABOLISM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 9644296031     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04356.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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